- Dec 12, 2023
Review of The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook
The Madstone begins as an against-the-odds attempt to evade evil and develops into a beautiful heartbreaker of a story about duty,...
- Sep 21, 2023
Review of Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance by Paulette Jiles
Jiles's newest stark, beautiful, heartbreaking historical fiction tracks former Union soldier John Chenneville as he travels the country...
- Mar 10, 2022
Review of Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu
In Marie Lu's young adult dystopian series starter Legend, the Republic and Colonies war with each other, a plague separates the haves...
- May 14, 2021
Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
The Civil War Books This painful, terrible time in our nation's history makes for some poignant, brutal, often beautiful storytelling....
- Jan 29, 2021
Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
01 Inland by Téa Obreht Much of Téa Obreht's Inland is centered around Nora, an impulsive, hot-tempered, strong woman fighting for a...
- Sep 17, 2020
Review of Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
I love Jiles's richly imagined historical fiction, and I'm in for her other books.