Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Kobo/Goodreads One historic incident in the lively, rich history of our country has never been as deeply scrutinized, debated over, and pondered like the infamous O.K. Corral gun fight that occurred in October, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona. This gunfight, and this city that is arrayed in legends and sordid Hollywood grit and glitz…
Tag: historicalfiction
Perdita by Hilary Scharper Blog Feature Part 2-Review &Literary Tea Recommendation
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Kobo/Goodreads Main Review: Perdita is a lesser known character from Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, which I have never read or really had any familiarity whatsoever with any of its characters till settling down to read Hilary Scharper’s enrapturing, thoughtful, strangely alluring ghostly, gothic mystery tale. The basic premise of the story involves Garth, a…
Perdita Blog Tour Feature Part 1: Hilary Scharper Interview
Perdita By Hilary Scharper Sourcebooks Landmark January 20, 2015 $16.99 Trade Paperback “Stunning… richly complex and unpredictable.” —Historical Novel Review Marged Brice is 134 years old. She’d be ready to go, if it weren’t for Perdita . . . The Georgian Bay lighthouse’s single eye keeps watch over storm and calm, and Marged grew…
Review of Greer Macallister’s “The Magician’s Lie” & Tea Recipe
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Kobo/Author’s Website/ Goodreads SONG RECOMMENDATION FOR BOOK: Emilie Autumn’s empowering anthem, Fight Like a Girl, the lead single for her most recent album, boasting the same title as the song., fits perfectly with the predominant theme and struggle for Ada, the main character in this story, who later adopts the stage moniker of “The…
Review of “Neverhome” and The Journey: A Kronberg Thriller” Paula Tupper’s
Editorial Notes: Sorry to Paula Tupper, for the delay for the many wonderfully written reviews she sent me for the next three months. To make up for that wide gap of time that she she was left hanging, I will be dutifully posting all her reviews that still need to be posted over the next day…
HF Virtual Blog Tour Post:The Gollantz Saga Book One: “The Founder of the House” by: Naomi Jacobs Interview
Publication Date: August 23, 2014 Corazon Books Genre: Historical Fiction Set in nineteenth century Paris, Vienna and London, this is a novel about family ties and rivalries, love and ambition. The Founder of the House introduces us to Emmanuel Gollantz, the son of a Jewish antique dealer, Hermann Gollantz. Hermann lives his life according to…
Review of “The Winter Sea,” by Susanna Kearsley & Special Literary Tea Recipe!
Amazon/Barnes & Noble/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads After having been thoroughly engrossed by Diana Gabaldon’s wonderfully dense historical fiction novel Outlander, I have been on my own purposeful quest to find other stories in the same genre corridor, which I know from the outset won’t be comparable to Outlander.That should never be one’s modi operandi for seeking out books,which are…
Shadows on the Highway HF Virtual Book Tours Book Blast Post
Please join Deborah Swift as she tours the blogosphere with HF Virtual Book Tours for Shadow on the Highway (The Highway Trilogy, Book One), from August 25-September 15, and enter to win your own copy! Review, from A Bibliophile’s Reverie, coming sometime in the next few weeks!! Publication Date: July 15, 2014 Endeavor Press Formats:…
Review of Neverhome by Laird Hunt
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/Goodreads Some books, dealing with hardened female protagonists, often skimp on the deep gender introspection, and oftentimes rely on the trope of the masculinized female heroine, who must completely divest of all feminine traits, to adapt in the male world. This psychological schism or divorce seems effortless, rewarding, and at the same…
Review of A Triple Knot, by: Emma Campion
Amazon/ Barnes & Nobles/ Books-A-Million/ Goodreads Review: Book’s Title: A Triple Knot Author of Book: Emma Campion Published by: Broadway Books; 2014 Review written by: Shonda Wilson Historical novels walk a tightrope between the truth and fiction. In order to succeed, an author needs to realistically convey a story that has, for the most part,…
Outlander Mondays-Special Outlander Iced Tea Recipe
If you have dared yourself to indulge in the incredibly engrossing world of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander book series, or the first two episodes of the impeccably cast Starz tv-series, then you will perfectly understand why I am so enamored with this series. Eventually, I will have a much more comprehensive discussion of the book series, but reading…
Interview with Elizabeth Fremantle &Sisters of Treason Giveaway
Giveaway: Win a copy of Elizabeth Fremantle’s Sisters of Treason, by accessing the Rafflecopter app, by clicking the cover image above for the book!! Remember, winners are chosen randomly, and the contest is only open to those living in the USA! Thanks! Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Books-A-Million/Goodreads And,be sure to also check out my review of the book, as well!!…
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