Reviews
Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books
The Girl with a Thousand Faces
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1942–1975: Chen Mei Chi, a young girl, washes up on a beach near Hong Kong during the Second World War. She remembers nothing of ...Read Review
A Harlem Wedding
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My favorite historical fiction is the kind that breathes life into a revered figure from the past by telling the story of someone ...Read Review
Kin
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“The road Vernice is walking is paved different from yours,” Annie’s grandmother tells her towards the beginning of Jones’s remarkable novel. “...Read Review
The Daffodil Days
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This is an extraordinary novel. Extraordinary in its form: the story runs backwards. Extraordinary in its content: a meticulously researched fictional biography covering ...Read Review
The Rebel Romanov
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The Rebel Romanov is an engaging biography of the enigmatic Princess Juliane (Julie) of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Although few of Julie’s letters have survived, ...Read Review
The Treasure Seekers
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This second verse novel from Cathy Faulkner (Digging for Victory) takes place immediately after World War 1. The setting is the fictional village of ...Read Review
Pioneer Scout John Helper: The Complete Western Trilogy
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The Pioneer Scout trilogy is set during the LDS westward exodus (1847-1869) and well described as “three intertwined tales of love, vengeance and ...Read Review
The Lion’s Silk: The Isfahan Deception
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This book, more an extended novelette than a traditional novel, tells the tale of Alessandro de’ Medici, a lesser heir to the family ...Read Review
Some Justice: A Ghazi Ammar Medieval Mystery
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912 CE, Baghdad. The dead body of an older man is found lying in the reeds in the Tigris River’s water marshes. He ...Read Review
The Antiquarian’s Object of Desire (Love’s Academic)
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Amelia Tarrant battled sexism and mischievous enchanted objects to land her professorship in the history department of Oxford University, only for her career ...Read Review
