Reviews
Reviews of some 20,000+ historical fiction books
The Witch of Willow Hall
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Tapping into recent interests in Gothic fiction, Fox’s uneven debut focuses on the middle daughter of a wealthy New England family who ...Read Review
Queen of the Darkest Hour
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Francia, 783. Fastrada, fourth wife of King Charles, quickly realizes that not all of the royal children are happy to see her wed their ...Read Review
Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires
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Juan Cole, widely respected expert on the Middle East, presents Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires, against the drumbeat of ...Read Review
The Hollow of Fear (Lady Sherlock)
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The Hollow of Fear is the third in Thomas’s Lady Sherlock series and honestly, they just keep getting better and better. In ...Read Review
My Real Name Is Hanna
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Teenaged Hanna Slivka narrates an unforgettable tale of loss and survival in this young adult story of the Holocaust set in Ukraine. Hanna’...Read Review
Dazzle Patterns
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When a warship explodes in Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia, in 1917, destroying a swath of the town and killing hundreds, Clare Holmes loses an ...Read Review
A Plague on Mr Pepys
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Bess Bagwell is headstrong and determined to make the most of her life and put the past—poverty, abuse, and hunger—behind her ...Read Review
The Retreat to Avalon: Volume 1 (The Arthurian Age)
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Sean Poage tells the tale of King Arthur in a realistic historical light. The prologue sets the stage, when in 469 AD the Roman ...Read Review
The Saxon Plague
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Book Two of the Saxon Wolves series continues the story of Anya, daughter of a Saxon king and British mother. Though herself a ...Read Review
When a Duke Loves a Woman: A Sins for All Seasons Novel
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After Gillian Trewlove chases away attackers robbing a man in the alley outside her tavern in Whitechapel and takes the handsome but bleeding ...Read Review
