B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads16th-century / 17th-century / cultural history / Historical / historical research / non-fiction / Stuart-England / Tudor-England3 Comments
Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman’s uproarious history. Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap chronicle, Elizabethan England was particularly ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsfootball / Historical / Historical fiction / Sports / Womens-Fiction / World War IINo Comments
Autumn: 1944: For the folks of Brownwood, Texas, the only thing more important than winning the war is—football! It’s a man’s game, until now… Football is the heartbeat of Brownwood, Texas. Every Friday night for as long as assistant principal Tylene Wilson can remember, the entire town has gathered in ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsEngland / Historical / Regency / short-story / Ugly Duckling3 Comments
Angelique is a short story. “The Marquise de Chabernet, her French grandmother, had fixed her with glittering eyes and told her when she was but ten years old, ‘If there is something that you want in this life, mon ange, do not believe anyone who says you cannot have it.'” ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / England / Historical / illegitimate-child / Regency5 Comments
Sophia has sacrificed everything for her younger sister, Lucy. She has removed them from the only home they ever knew, taken on the care of Lucy’s illegitimate son, George, and even assumed the role of a widow and mother in order to erase all hint of scandal from the boy’s ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews / C- Reviews17th-century / adultery / dysfunctional family / family relationships / Historical / London / Marriage-in-Trouble / plague2 Comments
Sometimes money costs too much. The Great Plague has London in its grip. As the summer heat rises, red crosses mark the doors, wealthy citizens flee and only the poor remain to face the march of death. Ambitious and attractive, Bess Bagwell is determined her carpenter husband, Will, should make ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsdysfunctional family / Historical / marriage-of-convenience / secrets / Victorian / Victorian EnglandNo Comments
She Wanted Sanctuary… Helena Reynolds will do anything to escape her life in London, even if that means traveling to a remote cliffside estate on the North Devon coast and marrying a complete stranger. But Greyfriar’s Abbey isn’t the sort of refuge she imagined. And ex-army captain Justin Thornhill—though he ... more >
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