Category: Historical Fiction
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Blog Tour: LADY IN THE LAKE by Laura Lippman
Thank you so much Faber & Faber for my free copy. Description: Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. Aside from her parents and the two sons she left behind, no one seems to have noticed. It isn’t hard to understand why: it’s 1964 and neither the police, the public, nor the papers care much when…
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Blog Tour: THE WOMAN IN THE WHITE KIMONO by Ana John
Description: Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man—an American sailor, a gaijin—and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it’s learned Naoko carries the sailor’s…
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Blog Tour: PRAIRIE FEVER by Michael Parker
Description: Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the intense dynamic between the Stewart sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. The two are bound together not only by their isolation on the prairie but also by their deep emotional reliance on each other.…
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Blog Tour: THE DAUGHTER’S TALE by Armando Lucas Correa
Description: BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp. Desperate to save her children, Amanda flees toward the south of France, where the widow of an old…
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Review: THE PARTING GLASS by Gina Marie Guadagnino
Thank you so much Atria Books for my gorgeous free copy! Description: By day, Mary Ballard is lady’s maid to Charlotte Walden, wealthy and accomplished belle of New York City high society. Mary loves Charlotte with an obsessive passion that goes beyond a servant’s devotion, but Charlotte would never trust Mary again if she knew…
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Review: THE SPLENDOR BEFORE THE DARK by Margaret George
Thank you so much Berkley Publishing for my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: With the beautiful and cunning Poppaea at his side, Nero Augustus commands the Roman empire, ushering in an unprecedented era of artistic and cultural splendor. Although he has yet to produce an heir, his power is unquestioned. But…
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Review: THE LOST QUEEN by Signe Pike
Thank you so much Touchstone Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: In a land of mountains and mist, tradition and superstition, Languoreth and her brother Lailoken are raised in the Old Way of their ancestors. But in Scotland, a new religion is rising, one that brings disruption, bloodshed,…
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Review: BITTER ORANGE by Claire Fuller
Thank you so much Tin House for my free review copy – all opinions are my own. Description: From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them―Cara first: dark and beautiful, then Peter: striking and serious. The couple is spending the summer of 1969 in the rooms below hers while…
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Book Spotlight: THE WITCH OF WILLOW HALL by Hester Fox
Thank you so much to Harlequin Publicity Team and Graydon House for my gorgeous free copy! This is the perfect October read! I am about halfway through and I am already SPELLBOUND – I cannot wait to finish! Description: Two centuries after the Salem witch trials, there’s still one witch left in Massachusetts. But she…
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Blog Tour & Review: NOVEMBER ROAD by Lou Berney
Thank you so much to William Morrow for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. “With every decision we create a new future,” Leo said. “We destroy all other futures.” Description: Frank Guidry, a loyal street lieutenant to New Orleans’ mob boss Carlos Marcello, Guidry has learned that everybody is expendable. But…