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Oct 18

Review of October in the Earth by Olivia Hawker

Hawker's newest historical fiction gives a wonderfully evocative peek into a gritty period, as her main protagonist escapes a bad...

Sep 28

Review of A Murderous Relation (Veronica Speedwell #5) by Deanna Raybourn

The fifth book in the Veronica Speedwell series offers more of Raybourn's magic: witty dialogue, an unorthodox partnership,...

Sep 20

Review of The Traitor (Alias Emma #2) by Ava Glass

Emma Makepeace returns with new enemies in her sights--but this time she must work undercover on a Russian oligarch's yacht without MI6...

Aug 31

Review of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird

Isabella Bird's nonfiction account of her 1873 travels through the rugged, wondrous American West is full of her irresistible...

Aug 9

Review of A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell #3) by Deanna Raybourn

In the third book in the irresistible Veronica Speedwell series, we learn more about Stoker's past, secrets, heartbreak, and motivations;...

Aug 8

Review of A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America by Timothy Egan

In this narrative nonfiction, Egan explores the Klan's explosive growth and power in the 1920s in states like Indiana and beyond, while...

Aug 2

Review of A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

This second book in Raybourn's historical fiction mystery series, set in Victorian London, hooked me even more fully into Veronica and...

Jul 26

Review of Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

In the second installment in Leigh Bardugo's Alex Stern series, Alex is as brave, scowling, and unapologetic as ever--and Darlington will...

Jul 25

Review of Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo

ICYMI: When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious multiple homicide, she becomes an unlikely...

Jul 13

Review of What Remains by Wendy Walker

Wendy Walker's thriller focuses on a detective, her stalker, and the lengths both will go to to try to get what they want. This is a...

Jun 29

Review of Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens

Claudia Cravens's story of a young brothel worker in late nineteenth-century Dodge City, Kansas, offers up a tough young heroine who...

Jun 8

Review of Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1) by Tracy Deonn

The first in the series sets up a strong young Black heroine who bucks tradition as she explores her own heritage, flexes her newfound...

May 30

Review of Silver in the Bone (Silver in the Bone #1) by Alexandra Bracken

Alternative Arthurian legends twist through this first in a young adult fantasy series, but what hooked me was the fearless, hardened,...

Apr 4

Review of VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

VenCo offers feminist, hard-drinking, foul-mouthed witches bound together by mysterious forces who undergo a quest to secure their...

Mar 28

Review of American Mermaid by Julia Langbein

This story within a story is playful and satirical while providing deep issues to contemplate. It's different and captivating and silly...

Jan 26

Review of Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

Young offers a brutally honest behind-the-scenes look at the systematic abuse she suffered in The Children of God cult and a front-row...

Nov 15, 2022

Review of Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks

ICYMI: Geraldine Brooks crafts a historical fiction story of 1666, a year in which disease, fear, and loss make way for redemption,...

Nov 9, 2022

Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin

I was interested in both of Martin's World War II storylines. The author's historical fiction romance-writing is evident here, in...

Oct 6, 2022

Review of Harrow the Ninth (Locked Tomb #2) by Tamsyn Muir

Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth, is a complex, fascinating, gruesome story full of action and shifts in...

Aug 25, 2022

Review of The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin

This World War II-set novel is a love letter to books, to looking out for others, to forming friends-like-family connections, and to...

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