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Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Rise to Rebellion
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This is a typical Shaara masterpiece, and that is high praise indeed. Once again this talented writer transports the reader into the minds ...Read Review
A Woman Named Solitude
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The slave trade in Guadeloupe provides the grim historical context for this brief but powerful novel. The opening chapters describe an indigenous African ...Read Review
Quest for Liberty
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Clearly written in a style which poignantly underlies the intense emotion and beliefs felt on both sides of the American Revolution, Quest for ...Read Review
The Birthright: Song of Acadia #3
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The Song of Acadia series began with two young women, one British and one French, who become close friends despite the fact their ...Read Review
Watch by Moonlight
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Alfred Noyes’s tragic, romantic poem “The Highwayman” is the basis of this imaginative and vivid novel. In 1763, Jason Quick of London, son ...Read Review
Slammerkin
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The title is drawn from 18th century slang for a loose dress, and by extension the loose woman who wears it. Inspired by ...Read Review
A Fifth of November
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England during the reign of James I was a time of fear and persecution for Catholic Jesuits. A Fifth of November is a ...Read Review
The Company: The Story of a Murderer
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Jeronimus Cornelisz is a disturbed, and disturbing, man. Ambitious, cunning, ruthless, amoral, and greedy, Cornelisz is also a killer. After experiencing a series ...Read Review
My Name is Red
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A man called Black, returning to Istanbul to resume work as a miniaturist in his uncle’s studio, soon discovers that all is ...Read Review
The Root and the Flower
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The Root and the Flower was originally published between 1929 and 1935 as three separate novels. Set in late 16th century India during the reign ...Read Review
