Genre: Historical Fiction

Review: Consolamentum

Review: Consolamentum

The first two books of The Tiger and Dove trilogy are filled with carnage, but Solomon’s Bride ends on an uplifting note.  Although I warned myself, there is still one chapter left in Sofia’s story she can’t have her fairy tale ending yet. Fond of: Tragedy does not strike the same as it did in […]

Posted October 20, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 0 Comments
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Review:  Madame Picasso

Review: Madame Picasso

Review: The Good: I’m typically not a romance novel kind of person, but I’ve always enjoyed reading about women behind the (fill infamous man here) perhaps I would have enjoyed People Magazine if it existed in the early 1900s. The details depicted to Picasso’s paintings were miraculous and could vividly picture them.  Eva’s yellow kimono […]

Posted September 16, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 0 Comments
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Review: The Fortune Hunter

Review: The Fortune Hunter

Novels that involve famed persons tend to be told through a female’s eye I did not find that to be the case in The Fortune Hunter.  Daisy Goodwin’s book is one of a love triangle and is aptly told by all three participant’s point of view.  It could very easily be told through the eyes […]

Posted July 29, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 1 Comment
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Review: Ember Island

Review: Ember Island

When my grandmother was a child she had a doll.  She was playing with this doll while work was being done on her home.  She set her toy down but when she returned it had been walled in, never to be seen again.  This what first came to mind upon the discovery of Nell’s Diary. […]

Posted June 5, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 2 Comments
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Review: Miss Darcy Decides

Review: Miss Darcy Decides

Speed Date With Darcy: First Date: Sir Camden is a combination of Wickham and Darcy.  He has the apparent bad boy persona  but the mysteriousness of Darcy. We are shown a snippet of his good nature which actually reminded me of Colonel Brandon.  So far, I have a bag of Austenesque characters. Second Date: Characters […]

Posted June 3, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 0 Comments
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Review: Solomon’s Bride

Review: Solomon’s Bride

“Thinking I was free from the Mongols forever, I felt such joy that I almost cried my thanks aloud.”  Our heroine Sofia exclaims at the beginning of Solomon’s Bride, I so wished this was true, and routed for her at the end of The Grip of God, but knew this would not be the case. […]

Posted May 21, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 2 Comments
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Book Review: Daughter Of The Gods

Book Review: Daughter Of The Gods

I’ve always enjoyed reading novels about Egyptian Pharaohs but they have mainly been on Nefertiti and Cleopatra, so when a novel about Hatshepsut came to my attention I jumped at the chance as I haven’t read much about her — why did it take me so long!  Yes, the novel is fiction but beyond the […]

Posted May 20, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 0 Comments
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Review: Queen Elizabeth’s Daughter

Review: Queen Elizabeth’s Daughter

While I was reading Queen Elizabeth’s Daughter I felt like a foreign Bachelorette was being played in front of me, only with the Queen handing out the roses.  It was clear that the bulk of this story would be about Mary’s love life and after being denied young love Queen Elizabeth feels it is her […]

Posted March 24, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 1 Comment
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Book Review: The Collector of Dying Breaths

Book Review: The Collector of Dying Breaths

 I read The Collector of Dying Breaths slowly, as if I was taking my last breath.  The story was as intoxicating as the perfumes described in its pages. When a story is told in two parts let alone two centuries I am usually drawn more towards one.  This was not the case here.  I was […]

Posted March 22, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 0 Comments
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Review: The Grip of God

Review: The Grip of God

While reading The Grip of God I felt a nagging feeling in the back of my head, Sofia and her story reminds me of someone, but who?  Last night it came to me, Cynthia Ann Parker.  Strange I know but bear with me, (and yes I know Cynthia Ann was a real person)  both were abducted […]

Posted March 3, 2014 by Whitney in Review / 2 Comments
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