“Love me. Past, present, and future.” from Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean. Which is exactly how I feel about this book. I will love this book past, present and future. Wicked and the Wallflower is the first in Sarah MacLean’s new Bareknuckle Bastards series. The heroine for the story is Lady Felicity Faircloth. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Historical Fiction
The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
I came across The Duchess Deal while listening to my favorite romance novel podcast, Heaving Bosoms. In the podcast, two friends read a book and thoroughly discuss it. I started listening to episode 19, which is part one of Tess Dare’s The Duchess Deal, and after hearing the host’s excitement about the book, I had … Continue reading
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Much of history can be learned through well-written and well-researched fiction. I sometimes prefer it if the subject is disturbing or painful because it lends the information some distance not available in non-fiction. Maybe this is avoidance initially, but it has often given me the opportunity to explore a topic before moving on to further … Continue reading
A Decline in Prophets by Sulari Gentill
This second entry in Gentill’s Rowland Sinclair mystery series fulfilled my fervent wish after reading the first: let the next book be as good! So it has and so am I happy. A Decline in Prophets finds Rowly and his Bohemian coterie of sculptress Edna Higgins, poet Milton Isaacs, and artist Clyde Watson aboard the … Continue reading
Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell
A well-written, well researched historical novel can be a real joy. In Claude & Camille, Stephanie Cowell brings life and depth not only to a great artist and his wife, but also to two very human beings. Painting was not something for which Claude Monet had an affinity, it was his essence. It consumed him, … Continue reading
A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill
In the first U. S. release of her Rowland (Rowly) Sinclair mystery series, Australian author Gentill introduces us to the land down under between the world wars. Unemployment is high for the working class and communism is gaining a foothold in their ranks. It is as popular among them socially and economically as it is … Continue reading
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
Axl and Beatrice are a deeply loving Briton couple who find themselves, because of aging, pushed more and more to the fringes of their community. Beatrice decides it’s time for them to join their son who moved away long ago. Their memories of the past are misty and many details hard to recall, but she … Continue reading
