Category: Historical Fiction
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Nocturne by Alyssa Wees
This book has been called haunting, lyrical, and fantasy. It is all of that and more. The setting is 1930’s Chicago. Grace Dragotta has grown up here. In Little Sicily and she has had a hard life full of wanting and very little getting. She wants nothing more than to dance. To become a ballerina…
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MUMMY DARLINGS by EMILY HOURICAN
A Glorious Guinness Girls Novel We have been with the Guinness girls for a bit now and I can’t seem to get enough of them. Or maybe it’s the author’s writing style. Either way it’s keeping me engaged. The girls are grown up now and we are imagining what their lives are like now. It’s…
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THE HAUNTING OF ALEJANDRA by V.CASTRO
A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this ravishing and provocative horror novel. Alejandra is depressed. Very depressed. She isn’t sure who she is besides a wife and a mother. She struggles with a lot of things and feels she…
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LONE WOMEN by VICTOR LAVALLE
Blue skies, empty land—and enough room to hide away a horrifying secret. Or is there? Discover a haunting new vision of the American West from the award-winning author of The Changeling. Montana in 1914. Adelaide carries a huge steamer trunk with her as she travels to Montana, always making sure it is locked. What is…
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THE LONDON SEANCE SOCIETY by SARAH PENNER
From the author of the sensational bestseller, The Lost Apothecary comes a spellbinding tale about truth, illusion and the grave risks women will take to avenge the ones they love. Sarah Penner grabbed me with The Lost Apothecary and I have been eager for this one to arrive! The year is 1873. Under the expert tutelage of…
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THE LOST ENGLISH GIRL by JULIA KELLY
Julia Kelly is one of those writers who can immerse you into whatever she is writing about. It took me a bit to come out of this one. Heartbreaking yet hopeful. It’s 1935 in Liverpool. Viv has been raised in a really strict and Catholic family. Her only hope to get out from under her…
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If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love by MARY CALVI
A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt’s first love My grandfather was a big fan of Teddy Roosevelt. It could have been from when his dad told him about Roosevelt coming to North Dakota and also telling him this story. Alice Lee was a beautiful woman from Boston. In 1878, she set out to…
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THE WHITE HARE by JANE JOHNSON
A wonderful story of mothers and daughters. The things they say and the secrets they don’t. An overbearing mother and a widowed and wounded daughter and granddaughter. Mila has been betrayed. By the father of her child. Now she is being bossed around by her mother. When Mila agrees to buy a rundown guest house…
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HESTER by Laurie Lico Albanese
A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England’s witchcraft trials. Who is the real Hester Prynne? A lot of historical facts blended with some imagination give us a look at who Hester may have been. It’s the…
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the ways we hide by Kristina McMorris
From the author of the wonderful Sold on a Monday comes another heartfelt story full of all the feels. A story set during World War II of an illusionist who was recruited by British Intelligence and the ingenious use of Monopoly as a tool. Fenna Vos is from Michigan. She knows what hardships are and…
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