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June 30, 2026

REVIEW: Days of Sun and Shadow by India Hayford

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews19th century / family drama / family relationships / Historical fiction / horses / saga / Southern Gothic / women's rights / Womens-Fiction2 Comments

Born into tragedy but gifted with a powerful connection to the natural world, a resilient young woman comes of age amid the wild beauty of early-1800s Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas in this incandescent, hauntingly moving epic about home, horses, human connection, and the transcendent awe of nature … Alabama, 1813: ... more >

December 29, 2025

REVIEW: Mrs. Walford by Brenda Tyedmers

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / addiction / Artist / epistolary / female friendship / found family / Gilded Age / Historical fiction / New York City / Nova Scotia / Womens-Fiction2 Comments

A thirty-year-old mother of two and wife of a prominent Brooklyn ship broker registers at the Queen Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia, using a false name. Two weeks later she is buried in the local cemetery. Or is she? Without family or friends, health or hope, Sadie Walford arrives already ... more >

September 26, 2025

REVIEW: The Keeper of the Western Door by Carla Kelly

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads19th century / Army / Native American / novella / POC / self discovery / Western Romance / Wyoming8 Comments

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When Mary Blue Eye travels to Wyoming Territory with her friend to help her settle into her new married life at Fort Laramie, Mary is treated more like a servant than the friend she thought she was. Thankfully, she finds a new friend in Sergeant Blade, though Mary fears that ... more >

April 29, 2025

REVIEW: Tough Luck by Sandra Dallas

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1860s / 19th century / American historical / brothers and sisters / chick-in-pants / found family / Historical fiction / western / young adult fiction2 Comments

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In this homage to True Grit, a young woman makes a perilous journey west in 1863 in search of her gold-mining father. After their mother dies, Haidie Richards and her younger brother, Boots, are put to work in an orphanage. Their father left four years earlier to find a gold ... more >

March 24, 2025

REVIEW: The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World’s Oldest Writing by Joshua Hammer

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / archaeology / History / language / non-fiction2 Comments

A rollicking adventure starring three free-spirited Victorians on a twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the world—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. It was one of history’s great vanishing acts. Around 3,400 BCE—as humans were gathering in complex urban settlements—a ... more >

August 22, 2024

REVIEW: Follow the Stars Home by Diane C. McPhail

JayneBook Reviews / C+ Reviews19th century / American history / First-Person / Historical fiction / History / journey / novelization / road trip / shipboard2 Comments

A captivating reimagining of the intrepid woman who – 8 months pregnant and with a toddler in tow – braved violent earthquakes and treacherous waters on the first steamboat voyage to conquer the Mississippi River and redefine America. It’s a journey that most deem an insane impossibility. Yet on October ... more >

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