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  • Review of Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen by Mary Sharratt

    Sharratt's carefully researched, richly detailed historical fiction is based on the life of the medieval fiction about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of fourteen whose radiant visions led her to stun medieval

  • Review of Not for the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher

    Croucher's young adult queer medieval adventure romance is sweet, spunky, and full of great banter, with The banter, the adventure, the medieval setting--yes yes yes.

  • Review of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

    Lex Croucher's queer medieval rom-com--the author's debut young-adult novel--is an absolute gem; it's

  • Review of The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri

    The Isle in the Silver Sea offers a medieval setting, magical elements, a story within a story, romantasy In an alternate medieval England, an island exists because of stories.

  • Review of The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow

    The Everlasting involves jaunts through multiple versions of the same story, as our fantastic main protagonists shift and change, bravely outsmart those who would control them, dare to hope for a future together, and fight dark forces until the bitter end. This is adventure-heavy, sometimes tender, and always intriguing. I loved it. Sir Una Everlasting was a legendary knight in the kingdom of Dominion, an orphan who rose to greatness and died in service to her queen. Her bravery is the stuff of fables, but her real story is no longer remembered. Centuries after her death, spindly, awkward, cowardly historian Owen Mallory unearths her story--and becomes inexorably intertwined with the events of Una's life as they occur in the past. The queen Una faithfully served is using Una for her own dastardly purposes, but the extent of her manipulation and ambitions has been hidden--until now. She will break Una before allowing her to be free. Harrow's tale involves multiple do-overs and attempts to shift events and alter reality--while the unlikely couple of Una and Owen fall in love again and again. If Una and Owen are going to change the way history is remembered--or have a chance at a life together--they'll have to work within their queen's bonds, yet reimagine the possibilities for the world around them and their union. The Everlasting is filled with rich adventure; twisty jaunts through time; tragedy and loss; dark turns, boundless hope; messy, happy discoveries; outsmarting those in power; and noble victories. It ticked a million boxes for me as a reader. This is the type of romantic fantasy I adore. No swooning, childish behavior, or foolishness, just hard-won connections, deep character development, bravely defying expectations, and absolutely lovely love. This broke my heart and mended it over and over, in the best ways possible. I love Alix E. Harrow's writing style and worldbuilding, and I loved The Everlasting . I received a prepublication version of this title, published October 28, courtesy of NetGalley and Tor Publishing Group. More Great Books from Alix E. Harrow Alix E. Harrow is also the author of the wonderful The Once and Future Witches , Starling House , and The Ten Thousand Doors of January , as well as A Spindle Splintered , A Mirror Mended , The Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage , and Fractured Fables .

  • Review of Revelations by Mary Sharratt

    of the everyday life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of fourteen whose radiant visions led her to stun medieval offers an immersive historical fiction novel that includes thoroughly researched, fascinating details of medieval (To say that producing this publication was a groundbreaking feat for a medieval woman who was stifled

  • Review of Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road #1) by Rachel Hartman

    young adult story follows irresistible, hardheaded, wonderfully faulted Tess as she breaks from rigid medieval In Hartman's Tess of the Road, Tess doesn't fit the mold of an obedient, quiet young woman in her medieval

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/16/26 Edition

    For more books I've read with medieval settings, please check out the titles at this link , and feel

  • Review of Shield of Sparrows (Shield of Sparrows #1) by Devney Perry

    The swearing felt modern, but the setting felt more medieval.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/24 Edition

    Kushner's noir, dark humor mystery; I'm reading Lex Croucher's soon-to-be published sassy young adult medieval

  • December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    life in a British boarding school and beyond; a Norse-inspired fantasy saga; a fun young adult, queer, medieval The Shadow of the Gods . 05 Not for the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher Croucher's young adult queer medieval The banter, the adventure, the medieval setting--yes yes yes.

  • Review of Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson

    Constanta is the sole survivor of a brutal medieval massacre in her village--but she's drawing her last

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/9/22 Edition

    his future at an East London commune; Revelations, Mary Sarratt's immersive historical fiction set in medieval Sharratt offers an immersive historical fiction novel that includes thoroughly researched details of medieval

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/8/24 Edition

    Constanta is the sole survivor of a brutal medieval massacre in her village--but she's drawing her last

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/24/23 Edition

    Revelations, about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of fourteen whose radiant visions led her to stun medieval

  • April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    in mid-century rural Colorado; Illuminations, Mary Sharratt's historical fiction about a walled-in medieval Sharratt Sharratt's carefully researched, richly detailed historical fiction is based on the life of the medieval fiction about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of fourteen whose radiant visions led her to stun medieval

  • Review of In the Serpent's Wake (Tess of the Road #2) by Rachel Hartman

    of the Road, we followed irresistible, hardheaded, wonderfully faulted Tess as she broke from rigid medieval

  • Six More of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year

    of The Paradise Problem . 06 Not for the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher Croucher's young adult queer medieval The banter, the adventure, the medieval setting--yes yes yes.

  • Six More Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    Sharratt Sharratt's carefully researched, richly detailed historical fiction is based on the life of the medieval fiction about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of fourteen whose radiant visions led her to stun medieval

  • Six Favorite Bossy Fantasy Reads from the Past Year

    young adult story follows irresistible, hardheaded, wonderfully faulted Tess as she breaks from rigid medieval In Hartman's Tess of the Road, Tess doesn't fit the mold of an obedient, quiet young woman in her medieval

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/26/22 Edition

    of the Road, we followed irresistible, hardheaded, wonderfully faulted Tess as she broke from rigid medieval

  • Review of The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz

    Voices from a Medieval Village as well as Splendors and Glooms, a Gothic mystery about puppeteers that

  • Review of What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

    It was as if credulous medieval masses had burst through into modernity, rushing into the wrong theatre

  • Six More Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    of the everyday life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of fourteen whose radiant visions led her to stun medieval offers an immersive historical fiction novel that includes thoroughly researched, fascinating details of medieval

  • 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    furious curses, and drunken spouses summoned home from the pub" to extrapolate about everyday life in medieval

  • May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    of the everyday life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of fourteen whose radiant visions led her to stun medieval offers an immersive historical fiction novel that includes thoroughly researched, fascinating details of medieval

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/7/22 Edition

    In Hartman's Tess of the Road, Tess doesn't fit the mold of an obedient, quiet young woman in her medieval

  • March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    young adult story follows irresistible, hardheaded, wonderfully faulted Tess as she breaks from rigid medieval In Hartman's Tess of the Road, Tess doesn't fit the mold of an obedient, quiet young woman in her medieval

  • Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books

    04 Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher Lex Croucher's queer medieval rom-com--the author's debut

  • Six of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year

    my full review of The Rule Book . 03 Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher Lex Croucher's queer medieval

  • February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    , Humans and Alien Life, and AI. 06 Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher Lex Croucher's queer medieval

  • Bossy Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    review, check out The Vaster Wilds. 02 Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher Lex Croucher's queer medieval

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