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,
Tag: historical fiction
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
July Blog Post Round Up
There wasn’t much going on for me during July. Mostly just getting used to my new job and change in
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
June Blog Post Round Up
Fun in June My summer vacation is over and I finally started my new job as a librarian at my
The King’s Justice by E.M. Powell
Rating: 5/5 What It’s About: England, 1176. Aelred Barling, esteemed clerk to the justices of King Henry II, is dispatched
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Rating: 5/5 What It’s About: Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s
Mini Review: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
A Foreword It’s been a real struggle for me to process my thoughts for The Poppy War. And after thinking
The Master’s Apprentice by Oliver Potzsch 
Rating: 2.5/5 What It’s About: It’s the fifteenth century and only heretics are curious about the universe. Germany, 1494. Born