Reviews

Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

The Specimen

By Jaima Fixsen - Published 2024

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Mystery/CrimeThriller

In Georgian Edinburgh, Isobel Tait quietly endures anticipatory grief – her son’s rare heart defect is fatal. Isobel’s last hope is dashed ...Read Review

A Song to Drown Rivers

By Ann Liang - Published 2024

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Two and a half thousand years ago, a Chinese peasant sends her daughter to the river to wash silk. There is a problem: ...Read Review

What They Said About Luisa

By Erika Rummel - Published 2024

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Biographical Fiction

Reimagined voices in the life and times of Luisa Abrego in 16th-century Spain come astonishingly to life in this novel of historical fiction. ...Read Review

54 Miles

By Leonard Pitts Jr. - Published 2024

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In the aftermath of WWII in Mobile, Alabama, when a white man asks a Black woman to marry him, it fractures the two ...Read Review

Craze

By Margaret Vandenburg - Published 2024

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It’s the roaring ´20s in New York City, and art critic Henrietta “Henri” Adams has landed a new job as a journalist ...Read Review

Berlin Duet

By S. W. Perry - Published 2024

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1938: English spy Harry Taverner spends the night dancing with a married woman, Jewish photographer Anna Cantrell. He is her case officer, and love ...Read Review

The Empress of Cooke County

By Elizabeth Bass Parman - Published 2024

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In the winter of 1966, thirty-eight-year-old Posey Burch Jarvis has had enough of her unglamorous Tennessee small-town life. Posey styles her hair, clothes and ...Read Review

A Capital Christmas (Christmas in the Castle)

By Sarah Hendess - Published 2024

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This sweet Christmas tale unfolds in the charged atmosphere of Washington, DC in 1859. John Brown has just conducted his raid, and the city ...Read Review

Daughters of Bronze: A Novel of Troy

By A. D. Rhine - Published 2024

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Epic

In Daughters of Bronze, A. D. Rhine (Ashlee Cowles and Danielle Stinson) continues their feminist retelling of The Iliad, focusing on four women: ...Read Review

The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts

By Louis Bayard - Published 2024

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Biographical Fiction

Behind the sensational headlines of Oscar Wilde’s affair with Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas is Oscar’s family dealing with the fallout. This “...Read Review