Reviews
Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books
The Mourning Emporium
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
In this standalone sequel to The Undrowned Child, Michelle Lovric has provided another rip-roaring tale of amazing ingenuity and inventiveness. The date is ...Read Review
Blown Off Course
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Blown Off Course is the seventh in David Donachie’s adventures of John Pearce, radical, press-ganged man, and reluctant Navy officer. John has ...Read Review
The Wake of the Lorelei Lee
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L. A. Meyer has penned another winner in The Wake of the Lorelei Lee, the eighth installment in the brilliantly entertaining, often madcap 19...Read Review
Churchill’s Secret Agent
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This “novel based on the true story” recounts the exploits of Max Ciampoli, who spent much of the war as “Churchill’s secret ...Read Review
Pacific Glory
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P. T. Deutermann, a retired U.S. Navy officer, offers a memorial to his late father and other American veterans of the 1944 Battle ...Read Review
Sad Stories of the Death of Kings
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Gifford has strung together a set of vignettes and moments-in-time about Roy, a kid who lives in Chicago, at various points in Roy’...Read Review
The Lion of Cairo
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Ruling Cairo as a figurehead in 12th-century Egypt, a young Caliph is manipulated by his grand vizier, who uses drugs to keep him ...Read Review
Sphinx’s Queen
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AdventureBiographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Nefertiti, the famous Queen of Egypt, is a young girl forced to escape the Crown Prince, a man she was to have married. ...Read Review
Quest For Honour
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3154 B.C. Mesopotamia. The rapacious King Shulgi of Sumeris is planning to extend his empire northwards and capture the small city-state of Akkad. ...Read Review
Storyteller
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultTime-slip
Elizabeth’s father has left for Australia, leaving her with an aunt she barely knows. But her aunt’s home feels oddly welcoming, ...Read Review
