Reviews
Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Honorable Company: A Novel of India Before the Raj
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In August 1815, Captain Matthew Hervey, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington, is summoned by the Duke and given an important and secret mission: ...Read Review
A Close Run Thing: A Novel of Wellington’s Army of 1815
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Debut author Mallinson brings to vivid life the travails and triumphs of Matthew Hervey, cornet in the (fictional) Sixth Light Dragoons cavalry regiment. “...Read Review
Home for the Holidays
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Vincent Everett, Baron of Windsmoor, is determined to take revenge on the man who supposedly destroyed his brother, George Ascot. The Baron sets ...Read Review
The Heir
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Johanna Lindsey takes her 36th novel to the ballrooms and estates of Regency England. While she has visited the era before, this is ...Read Review
Iceweaver
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A sequel of sorts to the historical mystery series starring midwife Hannah Trevor, this work of “straight” fiction brings her deaf daughter Jennet, ...Read Review
Liar’s Moon
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Philip Kimball takes the myth of the closing of the American frontier and turns it into gritty, yet poetic reality. From 1852, when a ...Read Review
Long Remember
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Long Remember was first published in 1934 and earned critical acclaim from reviewers in both prestigious and popular journals. The main character, Daniel Bale, ...Read Review
A Proper Match
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The Dowager Lady Graceover feels that the end might be near, and is determined to see her orphaned granddaughter Eleanor and her dependent ...Read Review
Nowhere Else On Earth
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Set during the waning days of the Civil War along the banks of the Lumbee River in North Carolina, Scuffletown residents’ way of ...Read Review
Allie’s Moon
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From age eight, Allie Ford has borne the guilt of causing her mother’s suicide and depriving her younger sister of a mother’...Read Review