Reviews
Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
Leaving Eden
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Na’amah is Adam’s daughter by his first wife Lilith, a mother she barely remembers. Yet despite the absence of her mother ...Read Review
The Waters Between: A Novel of the Dawn Land (Hardscrabble Books)
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The Waters Between is Joseph Bruchac’s third novel in the Dawn Land trilogy. Ten thousand years ago, the Abenaki Indians inhabited what ...Read Review
Memoirs of Pontius Pilate
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Mills mixes the Roman historical genre with the early Christian form. The blurb stated that Mills started with what he with no false ...Read Review
Lord of Emperors (Sarantine Mosaic)
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In this sequel to Sailing to Sarantium (Harper, 1999), Kay demonstrates yet again his mastery of the historical (fantasy) novel. All of his signature ...Read Review
Guardian of the Balance (Merlin’s Descendants)
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Arylwren, called Wren, was born of a single night of passion between Myrddin Emrys, better known as the Merlin, and Deirdre, high priestess ...Read Review
Household Gods
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Nicole Gunther-Perrin, single mother and transplanted Californian, is having the worst week of her life. Her deadbeat ex-husband heads to Cancún with ...Read Review
The Armada Boy (Wesley Peterson Crime Novels)
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Past and present again intertwine in the second of the Wesley Peterson crime novels (first up was The Merchant’s House), set near ...Read Review
The Waters of Babylon: A Novel about Lawrence after Arabia
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T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) easily qualifies as one of the most fascinating and controversial military figures in Britain’s long history ...Read Review
Hill Country
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When several years ago I first picked up True Women, Janice Woods Windle’s first novel about the passionate, tumultuous lives of her ...Read Review
The Emperor’s General
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You’d probably find this book in your local store in with the military adventure novels of Tom Clancy and so on, but ...Read Review