Imagine a garden where stone statues come alive, where Salvador Dalí himself orchestrates a dance between reality and the otherworldly. In the Garden of Monsters by Crystal King reimagines the Persephone and Hades myth. In the aftermath of World War II, Julia, a model, finds herself posing for Dalí as the goddess Persephone. But this […]
Happy weekend! I ended this week with a fantastic historical novel set in England during World War II, THE BOOKLOVER’S LIBRARY. Featuring a widow who’s entire life has been books just trying to get by with her daughter when World War II becomes a real threat to Nottingham. Here’s an excerpt and my review is […]
It’s been a while since I’ve read historical romance, but when TLC Book Tours approached me for Vanessa Kelly’s THE HIGHLANDER’S BRIDE, I decided to dive back into this genre. This is book #6 in the author’s Clan Kendrick series that feature several highlander brothers as they find love and happiness in 1800s Scotland. […]
I first encountered Cynthia A. Graham’s writing with her debut, Beneath Still Waters, and I fell in love with her writing and her characters. She has such a way of writing historical fiction that doesn’t stick out as taking place in the past, and the people are so unique and vivid that they still […]
I really liked and enjoyed Sally Christie’s fictional telling of France’s King Louis XV’s first mistresses, the Nesle sisters Louise, then Pauline followed by Marie-Anne, then briefly Diane, in The Sisters of Versailles (my review here). The intrigues of French court and how easily this King could be manipulated and lead by women to do […]
Historical fiction can sometimes be a bit dry, but The Sisters of Versailles is an engaging, almost soap opera-like account of five sisters in eighteenth century France–four of whom become mistresses of King Louis XV. Based on the real-life story of the Nesle sisters and written in a narrative style as if the sisters are […]
Happy Friday my friends and today I have the most awesome post ever! The Notorious Pagan Jones is set in Berlin, which is the German Capital and therefore I jumped at the chance to ask Pagan (or. Nina… ) for a Guide to visit Berlin! And Nina .. (uhm… Pagan) came with an amazing and fantastic Guide not only […]
Oh Guys, I’m so super excited to have Allison Pataki here on the Blog today. She’s a fantastic author of Historical Fiction / Romance and when I heard about her newest book ” The Accidental Empress” I was so so excited! See, she wrote a book about one of the most beloved German/Hungarian Empress of […]
We all have these books that just mean so much to us, these books that we love so much that we wish we could just re-read them all over again and again. Sure enough, there are not so many books or series that fall into this category for me, so these books have to be […]
Oh, dear reader! I’m so excited to be sharing this book with you today! When I learned this book was on tour with TLC book tours I asked to be on the tour straight away! A strong woman, the matriarch of the Tudor dynasty, who must weather the storms of her times? Oh HELLZ YES!!!!! […]
A few years ago I read – no – I devoured historical fiction. Actually it was all I ever read. And of course, the Tutor Era was one of my favorite ones to dive in. Sadly, I haven’t read lots of Young Adult historical fiction, so when I got the chance to read Brazen I […]
Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal (website, Facebook | Twitter) Genre: Historical Fantasy Publication: April 10th, 2012 by Tor Books Finished copy received from publisher in exchange for an honest review Get your own: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound synopsis from Goodreads Rating: Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming first novel Shades […]
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal (website, Facebook | Twitter) Genre: Historical Paranormal Publication: August 3rd, 2010 by Tor Books Borrowed from library Get your own: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound synopsis from Goodreads Rating: Shades of Milk and Honey is an intimate portrait of Jane Ellsworth, a woman ahead of […]
