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Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books
The Good Fortune of Miss Robbins
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England, 1814. Orphaned Charlotte Robbins is governess to the young siblings of William, Lord Brookhaven. Principled, intelligent, and pretty, Charlotte longs for love and ...Read Review
Showboat Soubrette
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In the antebellum South, showboats moving up and down the Mississippi provided entertainment for their passengers. On the Lady J, Stella Parrot, a ...Read Review
Carausius & Allectus
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The 3rd century AD saw the once mighty Roman Empire fracture into crisis and chaos. In the year 286, with widespread military support, Carausius, ...Read Review
Sweetbitter Song
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One evening, a nine-year-old slave girl named Melantho meets ten-year-old Princess Penelope, and from that moment on, they are inseparable … until Penelope’s ...Read Review
Double Shadow: A Splinter Effect Novel
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A fellow moves in time and geography through Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, concentrating on the 1st and 21st centuries. ...Read Review
The League of Lonely War Women
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The Second World War continues to furnish novelists with inexhaustible plots, its vast machinery of conflict creating space for both grand strategy and ...Read Review
The Golden Monkey Mystery
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
This mystery tale from the Raj introduces us to Roma, a charming, reckless heroine, a young Indian girl who can talk to cats – ...Read Review
Wayward Souls (Harker & Moriarty)
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Historical FantasyMilitaryMystery/Crime
Wayward Souls is the sequel to Strange Beasts, novels set in a fictional world featuring descendants of characters from Bram Stoker’s Dracula ...Read Review
Woodspring
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This novel is a riveting family saga, split into three separate stories about the owners of Woodspring, a Regency house in Berkshire. The ...Read Review
Fuggitivi (New Americans)
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Fuggitivi (Book 1 of The New Americans) opens in Sicily in the early 20th century, where the Donatello family lives under the shadow of ...Read Review






