Posts tagged with ‘Historical Fiction’
January 17, 2012
CHARMING HISTORICAL MYSTERY with a just pre-Regency English setting and an appealing heroine/sleuth is good fun.
Grade: B PLUS
THE GILDED SHROUD
Penguin
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
January 9, 2012
STORY-WITHIN-A-STORY starts with a bang and ends with a whimper. Even Byron can’t make this novel sizzle!
Grade: B MINUS
CHILDISH LOVES
W. W. Norton
2011
Tags: B Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Literary History, Novels
January 8, 2012
EPIC HISTORICAL NOVEL with a magic realist touch takes in the Spanish Civil War, its origins and its aftermath.
Grade: SOLID B
BOOKS BURN BADLY
Random House
2011
Tags: Historical Fiction, Novels, Solid B Reviews, Spain
December 30, 2011
JUICY COURT DRAMA revolves around the loves and hatreds of the young Louis XIV. Lots of detail and intrigue!
Grade: SOLID B
BEFORE VERSAILLES: A NOVEL OF LOUIS XIV
Crown
2011
Tags: France, Historical Fiction, Novels, Solid B Reviews
December 27, 2011
BEAUTIFULLY PACED AND CRAFTED steampunk Alt-Victorian adventure with lots of twists, turns, and technology.
Grade: B PLUS
THE IMMORALITY ENGINE: NEWBURY & HOBBES INVESTIGATION #3
Tor
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction
December 7, 2011
THE TUDOR COURT’S most opaque figure, Queen Jane Seymour, fictionalized tastefully but with little sparkle.
Grade: SOLID B
THE FAVORED QUEEN
St. Martin's
2011
Tags: Historical Fiction, Novels, Solid B Reviews
November 30, 2011
EPIC, SWEEPING HISTORICAL novel follows Richard the Lionhearted on crusade. Lots of detail, court intrigue.
Grade: B PLUS
LIONHEART
Putnam
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels
November 21, 2011
DECK THE HALLS with Flavia de Luce! The spookily precocious child sleuth returns for a Christmassy whodunit.
Grade: B PLUS
I AM HALF SICK OF SHADOWS: A FLAVIA DE LUCE MYSTERY
Delacorte
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
November 6, 2011
SWEEPING HISTORICAL ROMANCE of an American heiress and an English duke has old-fashioned Whartonesque charm.
Grade: B PLUS
THE AMERICAN HEIRESS
St. Martin's
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Women's Fiction
November 2, 2011
ANOTHER CHARMING 1930s mystery for “Her Royal Spyness” as she hits the Riviera with Chanel, Wallis Simpson.
Grade: SOLID B
NAUGHTY IN NICE
Berkley
2011
Tags: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews