Tag: historical fiction book reviews

The Edge of Nowhere Blog Tour: Book Review

January 25, 2016 Reading Life 1 Comment
Today I’m participating in Cathie Armstrong’s blog tour for her new book, The Edge of Nowhere, just released on the 19th of this month! You can stop by her website and check out the other blog tour stops here.  Without further ado, let’s get to it!  Book review… Victoria Hastings Harrison…

Book Review: The Splendour Falls by Susanna Kearsley

January 20, 2016 Reading Life No Comments
Review of: The Splendour Falls by Susanna Kearsley Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery When Emily goes on vacation to the Chateau Chinon, she expects the rich atmosphere, steeped in the intertwined histories of France and England.  Her cousin Harry has been researching a long-lost treasure, supposed to have been left by…

Book Review: The Munich Girl by Phyllis E. Ring

December 31, 2015 Reading Life No Comments
Review of: The Munich Girl by Phyllis Edgerly Ring Genre: Historical Fiction Book Description (Cover Blurb): Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun.  Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did–that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.  The secret surfaces…

Series Review: Molly Murphy Mysteries

December 3, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments
Review of: The Molly Murphy mysteries by Rhys Bowen Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery Today’s post is more about an entire series than just one book.  Partly because it’s a fairly lengthy series, and I feel like a bunch of book reviews about books within a mystery series would end up…

Book Review: Letters to the Lost

November 26, 2015 Reading Life No Comments
Review of: Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey Genre: Historical Fiction, Literary Jess is running away from her abusive boyfriend on an icy night in February in downtown London. When she comes to an abandoned flat, she has no choice but to break in or freeze to death.  Never…

BOOK REVIEW: The Midwife of St. Petersburg

November 17, 2015 Reading Life No Comments
Book Review of: The Midwife of St. Petersburg by Linda Lee Chaikin Genre: Historical Fiction Karena Peshkev wants to be a midwife and attend the medical school in St. Petersburg, like her mother always dreamed of doing.  As the daughter of a farmer though, she can feel that dream slipping…

BOOK REVIEW: The Sandcastle Girls

October 24, 2015 Reading Life No Comments
Review of: The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian Genre: Historical Fiction, Literary When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she is there with one purpose–to use her newly acquired nursing degrees to aid the relief of the Armenian refugees trickling through Syria in the first breakers of the Great War.  She…

BOOK REVIEW: Bittersweet by Colleen McCollough

August 14, 2015 Reading Life No Comments
Review of: Bittersweet by Colleen McCollough Genre: Literature, Historical Fiction In early 1920s Australia, two sets of twins undertake a studying program at the local hospital to become the area’s first registered nurses for varying reasons, but mostly to escape from the domineering thumb of their stepmother.  For Edda, the…

BOOK REVIEW: A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley

June 15, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments
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