by Site Owner | Jul 23, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, Young Adult
A Life Lived Over By Helen Sedwick Ten Gallon Press, $9.99, 224 pages, 3 stars Here’s a story that rolls along so fast it’s hard to keep up with it. Lively, entertaining, humorous, researched with more accuracy and vigor than many juvenile books, and all...
by Site Owner | Jul 18, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Intrigue in the Royal Court By Carolly Erickson St. Martin’s Press, $25.99, 291 pages Carolly Erickson creatively tells the tale of how treacherous it was to be a wife of Henry VIII’s 1500’s England. In The Unfaithful Queen Catherine is a young girl living in...
by Site Owner | May 31, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
By James MacManus Thomas Dunne Books, $25.99, 336 pages James MacManus’ Black Venus tells the story of the mixed race mistress of the poet Charles Baudelaire. From their first chaotic meeting in a bar brawl to their ultimate parting, Jeanne...
by Site Owner | May 19, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Requiem for Healing By Frances Itani Atlantic Monthly Press, $24.00, 320 pages For historical novelists, this novel is satisfying and eye opening. Requiem follows Bin, a Japanese-Canadian, who relates the story of his childhood as he travels across...
by Site Owner | May 18, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
The Immigrant Experience By Roshi Fernando Alfred A. Knopf, $24.95, 288 pages Roshi Fernando takes on the heavy subject of belonging in her book, Homesick. This novel revolves around a Sri Lankan family living in the UK. Preethi, the main character,...