Tag: historical fiction
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Review: Anatomy A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Dana Schwartz presents Anatomy, which is a love story in many ways. Readers follow Hazel at the turn of the 19th century. She is to be married to a future viscount, but her true love has always…
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Review: My Contrary Mary by Hand/Meadows/Ashton
4 stars **I was provided a galley audiobook from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows return to the world established in My Lady Jane to bring My Contrary Mary. In this installment, the author trio continues with their fantastical retellings of historical women by taking…
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Review: The Conductors by Nicole Glover
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Nicole Glover’s debut novel, The Conductors, brings magic to an alternate timeline Underground Railroad. Readers follow Henrietta “Hetty” Rhoades, who along with her husband Benjamin “Benjy”, was once a conductor along the railroad guiding slaves to freedom.…
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Review: The Revolutionary and the Rogue by Blake Ferre
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 2.5 Blake Ferre’s The Revolutionary and the Rogue brings readers to the French Revolution where the Committee hunts down those accused of treason against the new Republic. English aristocrat, Perrin de Vesey, shouldn’t be drawn to Committee…
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Review: A Sanctuary of Spirits by Leanna Renee Hieber
**I was provided with an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Leanna Renee Hieber continues her Spectral City series with book two, A Sanctuary of Spirits. The series follows Miss Evelyn “Eve” Whitby, medium and head of the secret Ghost Precinct instated by Governor Theodore Roosevelt,…
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Review: The Weight of a Soul by Elizabeth Tammi
** I was provided with an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 4.5 stars Elizabeth Tammi’s sophomore novel, The Weight of a Soul, follows Lena and her clan in the Viking age of Scandinavia. Of course, the Norse gods have their own plans, and Lena and her…
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Review: The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh
** I came to be in possession of an ARC, but the ARC was NOT provided to me by the publisher. In good faith, I’ll write a quick review anyhow. 🙂 ** 4 stars Renee Ahdieh’s newest work, The Beautiful, has been hailed as the book to bring vampires back to YA. There are vampires.…
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Review: The Deaths and Afterlife of Aleister Crowley by Ian Thornton
**I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.** DNF @ 25% I don’t know what I expected of this book, but this distinctly was not it. I was drawn in by the cover and the synopsis and was expecting historical fantasy. Instead, what I received was…
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Review: Critique of Criminal Reason by Michael Gregorio
4 stars Critique of Criminal Reason is certainly what it promised to be- a historical fiction detective novel. Michael Gregorio cleverly utilized a historical background of Napoleonic era Prussia combined with the inspiration of the philosophies of Immanuel Kant to form the backbone of the story. Add in one young investigative magistrate in Hanno Stiffeniis…
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Review: Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
5 stars Like the rose hips in Esperanza’s father’s garden, this book carries with it the memories and love of those who came before it. Pam Muñoz Ryan has achieved a novel based on stories told to her by her grandmother who is the original Esperanza Ortega. Muñoz Ryan achieved a fictional recreation of what…
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