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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Second Lives: A Novel of the Gilded Age
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Denver in the early 1880s may not have been the center of the universe, but to anyone living in the American West at ...Read Review
Restitution
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This very enjoyable western is a tour-de-force of the human psyche. Every virtue, vice, pathology, and emotion is embodied in its characters. Truman ...Read Review
Paradise Square
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It would be impossible to imagine a name more at odds with the reality than Paradise Square, the dead center of the notorious ...Read Review
Servant of the Law
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This novel of the American Old West has a severe case of split personality. On one side is the Coyote Kid, a born ...Read Review
The Wind Done Gone
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Alice Randall retells the story of Gone With the Wind using Scarlett O’Hara’s mulatto half-sister Cynara for her voice. In diary ...Read Review
Ashes and Ice (Yukon Quest 2)
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Karen Pierce and Grace Colton are two strong women who find themselves in an epic struggle against man and the Alaskan wilderness during ...Read Review
Gracelin O’Malley
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Gracelin O’Malley is a farmer’s daughter living a hard life in rural Ireland when she catches the eye of the local ...Read Review
Civil Blood
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Battles rage outside Richmond in the spring of 1862, but the possibility of a plague within the city spread by contaminated money is the ...Read Review
A Proper Affair
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Cassandra Abbott, the author of A Lady’s Guide to Proper Etiquette, follows her own advice to the letter. However, she has a ...Read Review
The Great Game
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This series is Holmesian by association, featuring Professor James Moriarty, Holmes’ greatest foe. As the protagonist, Moriarty is more of an “eminence de ...Read Review
