Reviews

Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books

Bargains of Fate: Book Two in the Fields of Honor Series

By Sharon Virts - Published 2026

Genres:

Saga

Bargains of Fate picks up where Virts’ Masque of Honor leaves off, but it is not necessary to read the first one, as ...Read Review

The Falcon’s Heart

By Joyce DiPastena - Published 2026

Genres:

Romance

This is a romantic adventure and the first of a five-book series set in Poitou, France, during the rebellion of Richard the Lion-hearted ...Read Review

The Pursuit of Felicita

By Ty Drago - Published 2026

Genres:

Saga

The Pursuit of Felicita (Book 3 of The New Americans) continues the Donatello family’s journey as they navigate a rapidly changing America in ...Read Review

The Life She Forgot

By JOANNA DAVIDSON POLITANO - Published 2025

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

1913. Merryn has lived with amnesia for three years, and in an impulsive moment, she proposes to her new beau, who accepts just as ...Read Review

Suppression

By P. M. Emerson - Published 2026

Genres:

When Henry VIII defied the Pope’s ruling over his divorce, embraced excommunication, and established himself as the head of a new church, ...Read Review

Dance in a Madhouse

By Jess Wright - Published 2026

Genres:

Thriller

New York City, 1905. Owen Townsend, a medical intern just recovering from typhoid, suffers a psychotic episode in Central Park. His father, occupied with ...Read Review

Library of Forbidden Books

By Gretchen Abernathy (trans.) - By Mario Escobar - Published 2026

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

Set in Germany between 1932 and the early years of WWII, Library of Forbidden Books is a tribute to the power of literature to ...Read Review

Murder at the Gasworks

By Lisa Lane - Published 2026

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

London, 1860, and ten-year-old Tommy Jones returns to his lodgings after a day laboring at the gasworks to find his friend, stoker Joe Carter, ...Read Review

The Halls of the Dead

By S.M. Hallow - Published 2026

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In a magic-touched London in December 1849, necromancer Irene Haley has achieved a near impossibility, a true resurrection—the first in two thousand years. ...Read Review

A Year of Marvelous Ways

By Sarah Winman - Published 2026

Genres:

Literary

Marvelous Ways is nearly ninety and lives in a gypsy caravan near a creek in St. Ophere, Cornwall. She’s an eccentric woman ...Read Review