Reviews
Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
A Regency Sampler
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There’s a lot to like in these fifteen stories by various authors. The bon ton of the Regency, the cant, the wit ...Read Review
Texas Lily
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Spanning the years 1878 to the late 1890s, this saga of the American Southwest follows the life of Lily Cassidy Moss, who at age 15, ...Read Review
Alice’s Tulips
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“A yellow tulip is like sunshine,” Alice tells her mother-in-law. “Yellow is for joy and gladness and friendship.” Mother Bullock has come to ...Read Review
Song Of Innocence
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Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, this story follows the star-crossed, reasonably suspenseful although basically predictable story of lovers allied ...Read Review
Righteous Warriors
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Civil wars always provide a novelist with perfect, ready-made historical settings for drama and passion set against backgrounds of large scale suffering and ...Read Review
Grant
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Grant joins Ev Ehrlich’s Grant Speaks and Richard Parry’s That Fateful Lightning (see Review 13) as novels concerning the life and especially ...Read Review
Wildwood Boys: A Novel
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William (Bill) Anderson lived peacefully enough on his parents’ farm together with his brother and three sisters. They were a musical family, fond ...Read Review
Mystic Visions
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Rosanne Bittner, author of nearly fifty historical romances, takes a step into the straight historical novel with Mystic Visions. Narrated primarily by Sioux ...Read Review
The Chivalry of Crime
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Jesse James is one of those characters from the American frontier past whose terrifying charisma exerts as powerful a hold on contemporary readers ...Read Review
Jane and the Stillroom Maid: Being the Fifth Jane Austen Mystery
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A stillroom, in early nineteenth century England, was the place where medicines were distilled, stored and dispensed. The maidservant whose often-atrocious remedies begin ...Read Review
