Kristen McDermott

A Crane Among Wolves

By June Hur - Published 2024

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

This dense but fast-moving YA adventure begins with 17-year-old Iseul staggering through the forest of medieval Korea, desperate to find and rescue her ...Read Review

The Melancholy of Untold History

By Minsoo Kang - Published 2024

Genres:

Historical FantasyLiterary

It’s hard to put a label on this playful, moving narrative by a professor of history, but fans of time-hopping historical novels ...Read Review

Daughters of Chaos

By Jen Fawkes - Published 2024

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Set in Nashville during the Civil War, this work of magical realism (or “a braided alternate history,” as the author calls it) combines ...Read Review

American Daughters

By Piper Huguley - Published 2024

Genres:

Huguley continues her interest in highlighting the lives of Black professional women who make a place for themselves in the corridors of American ...Read Review

Every Time We Say Goodbye

By Natalie Jenner - Published 2024

Genres:

Jenner’s previous novels, The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls, have established an enchanting group of characters drawn together by their love ...Read Review

Finding Margaret Fuller

By Allison Pataki - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Margaret Fuller, friend and muse to Emerson, Whitman, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and a host of other Victorian literary luminaries, is an ideal subject for ...Read Review

Edith Holler

By Edward Carey - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

This fascinating, dreamlike novel is hard to categorize. Set in 1901 Norwich, England, this penny-dreadful-inspired tale of haunted theaters, murderous stepmothers, cannibalism, ghosts, and ...Read Review

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

By Katherine Arden - Published 2024

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

There are myriad novels that depict the horrors of World War I, but Arden has come up with a new and mesmerizing approach. ...Read Review

Mrs. Gulliver

By Valerie Martin - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

Lila Gulliver is the madam of a sedate, respectable brothel on an unnamed tropical tourist island. This is a historical novel only in ...Read Review

Uncanny Vows (2) (Huntsmen)

By Laura Anne Gilman - Published 2023

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In this second volume in her series, Gilman raises the stakes for her psychic, monster-slaying Huntsman siblings, Rosemary and Aaron Harker. The near-apocalyptic ...Read Review

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