Reviews

The Forest

By Edward Rutherfurd -

Genres:

Epic

Edward Rutherfurd has given us the pageantry of Sarum, the teeming life of London and the vast exotic sweep of Russian history in ...Read Review

The Kingsley House

By Arliss Ryan - Published 2000

Genres:

Saga

I’ve always had a soft spot for multi-generational sagas, although The Kingsley House is much more than these simple words can describe. ...Read Review

The Stars Compel

By Michaela Roessner - Published 1999

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In this sequel to The Stars Dispose, Roessner continues her retelling of the life of Catherine de’ Medici in a story whose characters ...Read Review

Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy

By Juliet Marillier - Published 2000

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Children of a wealthy landholder in early medieval Ireland, Sorcha of Sevenwaters and her six elder brothers grow up surrounded by lakes and ...Read Review

The Black Chalice

By Marie Jakober - Published 2000

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Paul von Arduin, now a monk, is compelled by sorcery to write the truth of his adventures with his former master, Karelian Brandeis. ...Read Review

Percival and the Presence of God

By Jim Hunter - Published 1997

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

This is the first novel reprinted in the Pendragon Fiction line. Originally published in England in 1978, the novel is an exploration of the ...Read Review

The Merlin of St. Gilles’ Well (The Joan of Arc Tapestries)

By Ann Chamberlin - Published 1999

Genres:

Biographical FictionHistorical Fantasy

In the early 1400s, Jean le Drapier, a maimed Breton seer, awaits the birth of La Pucinelle, the girl he has seen in ...Read Review

A Prayer for the Dying

By Stewart O'Nan - Published 2000

Genres:

Literary

For a historical horror novel set in post-Civil War Wisconsin, A Prayer for the Dying has an experimental prose style: present tense, strong ...Read Review

The Tree of Life: A Novel

By Hugh Nissenson - Published 2000

Genres:

InspirationalLiterary

The Tree of Life is a powerful novel about one man’s journey in faith. as he journeys through life in the early 1800...Read Review

In the Arms of the Sky

By Earl Murray - Published 1998

Genres:

Biographical FictionWestern

Based on a true story, In The Arms of The Sky fictionalizes a brief period in the life of a world-traveling Englishwoman, Isabella ...Read Review