Reviews

Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books

The Propagandist

By Cécile Desprairies - By Natasha Lehrer (trans.) - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

In the 1960s, when she is six or seven years old, Coline begins paying attention to her mother Lucie’s regular morning gatherings ...Read Review

The Jewel of the Blues

By Monica Chenault-Kilgore - Published 2024

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In the early 20th century, Lucille Love, the “Little Girl with the Big Voice,” comes of age in the face of racial prejudices ...Read Review

Wings to Soar

By Tina Athaide - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Forty percent of the world’s 47 million refugees are under the age of 18. In the middle-grade novel Wings to Soar, Tina Athaide uses ...Read Review

To Pledge Allegiance

By Robert W. Smith - Published 2024

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From the first pages of this engaging novel, readers are immersed in Chicago at the time of Woodrow Wilson’s declaration of war ...Read Review

Florida Girls (The Queenpin Chronicles)

By L L Kirchner - Published 2024

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It’s October 1944, and 18-year-old Thelma Miles finds herself in St. Petersburg, Florida – stranded after her bus to Miami leaves without her because ...Read Review

The Good Women of Fudi

By Liu Hong - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

Aboard ship, en route to the small Chinese town of Fudi, two men strike up a friendship. Charles is an ‘ocean man’ (foreigner), ...Read Review

The Sparkler

By Alan Humm - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

It is probably true that many people base their view of Charles Dickens, the man, on his relationship with the characters he created ...Read Review

The Secrets of Morgarten

By L S Mangos - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

A handsome knight on the run with a secret mission, a charming tracker with a famous father and a position of pacifism, and ...Read Review

The Longest Exile (The Exile Duology)

By Tana Rebellis - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Being the granddaughter of the great Augustus should come with benefits, right? Not so for the protagonist of Ms. Rebellis’s novel. Instead, ...Read Review

Murder at Mistlethwaite Manor

By A.J. Skelly - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Lady Emma Grace Hastings cannot believe her eyes—or her good luck.  She has received one of only ten coveted invitations to the ...Read Review