Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Rating: 3/5 What It’s About: Set against Iceland’s stark landscape in 1829, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story
Tag: historical fiction
No Quiet Water by Shirley Miller Kamada
Rating: 3/5 What It’s About: After the U.S. declares war on Japan in 1941, all persons of Japanese descent in
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Rating: 4/5 What It’s About: Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Bergensdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Rating: 3/5 What It’s About: The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the
Mini Book Reviews: In the Distance and Death and the Maiden
Hello, friends! The end of August was kind of a sad month for me in terms of books. I read
Of Lands High and Low by Martha Keys
Rating: 3/5 What It’s About: Isla Findlay belongs nowhere. The daughter of a disgraced woman and the Highlander who abandoned
Mini Review: A Net For Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
Rating: 2/5 What It’s About: When Frances Howard, unhappy wife of the Earl of Essex, meets the talented Anne Turner,
The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
Rating: 4/5 What It’s About: Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is
Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
Rating: 3/5 What It’s About: Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four years old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft
The Candlelit Menagerie by Caraline Brown
Rating: 2.5/5 What It’s About: Set in late eighteenth-century London, this debut novel features Lillian, a freakishly tall woman who