Tag: #historicalfiction

• Magic Tree House: Merlin Missions

  I have finished my mission to read all the Merlin Missions. And the series except for the latest book because it has a long waiting list as it should. Some series don’t stand the test of time much less resonate with a new generation (usually by retconning the old which makes no one happy) but…

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 24, 2024

  Book/Author Highlight

  #blizzardofthebluemoon, #dangerinthedarkesthour, #fantasy, #forthefuturebenfranklin, #historicalfiction, #lowergrade, #magicalrealism, #magictreehouse, #marypopeosborne, #merlinmissions, #nightofthenewmagicians, #rachelreads&reviews, #scholastic

• Patriot Hearts Review

  After going on that Hamilton binge, I needed to read more about our Revolutionary Founders. Or as Abigail Adams said, “Remember the Ladies.”

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 1, 2024

  Reviews

  #barbarahambly, #historicalfiction, #patriothearts, #rachelreads&reviews

• May Books

  Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon Sophie and Nick have been best friends since they were toddlers, next door neighbors playing in the mud and blending the artistic talents as dancer and piano-player respectively to create “Terrible Twosome” performances. They know each other better than anyone, love each other and respect each other…

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 31, 2024

  Book Suggestions

  #acrosssomanyseas, #fredaceves, #historicalfiction, #middlegrade, #ouryearofmaybe, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachellynnsolomon, #rachelreads&reviews, #ruthbehar, #simon&schuster, #thenewdavidespinoza, #wecan’tkeepmeetinglikethis, #YA

• My Dear Hamilton Review

  As anyone who got on the Hamilton fever train a decade knows that without Eliza Schuyler, her husband’s sory would never have been known. Literally, because she spent the last decades of her life com[iling his millions of correspondence and batting away the obstacles of his enemies who wanted him to be forgotten and his…

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 5, 2024

  Reviews

  #anovelofelizaschuyler, #harpercollins, #historicalfiction, #laurakamoie, #mydearhamilton, #rachelreads&reviews, #stephaniedray, #williammorrow

• Magic Tree House

  Sp as this year’s theme is childhood nostalgia I decided to read the Magic Tree House series for the first time in. . . two decades maybe? And since I had stopped reading them, Osborne had returned to her breakout series with all new stories but I’ll get to that in a bit.

  rachelbeerwoman

  April 6, 2024

  Book/Author Highlight

  #historicalfiction, #lowergrade, #magictreehouse, #marypopeosborne, #rachelreads&reviews, #scholastic

• The Hamilton Affair Review

  Critics dubbed this as the Hamilton book to read if you want to read a fictionalized account of the near global sensation that is Alexander Hamilton’s life and marriage.

  rachelbeerwoman

  April 5, 2024

  Reviews

  #arcade, #elizabethcobbs, #historicalfiction, #rachelreads&reviews, #thehamiltonaffair

• All for One Review

  The final book in the Alex and Eliza trilogy may just be my favorite as De La Cruz fully leans into what makes the Hamilton’s love story so memorable all these years later. Eliza and her forgiveness, and the love the Hamiltons shared for each other and their country despite their flaws. Set a year…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 4, 2024

  Reviews

  #alex&elizatrilogy, #historicalfiction, #melissadelacruz, #rachelreads&reviews, #simon&schuster, #YA

• Love & War Review

  I know it looks a bit ironic to start the month of Valentines, love and romance with a broken heart title but it is just the theme of the story, Alex and Eliza do triumph through their obstacles like any good HEA.

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 1, 2024

  Reviews

  #alex&elizatrilogy, #historicalfiction, #love&war, #melissadelacruz, #rachelreads&reviews, #simon&schuster, #YA

• Author Highlight: Michelle Moran

  I have already extolled Moran’s virtues in historical writing in previous posts but after several more books in her catalogue, I have to expound on how deftly she immerses the reader into the ancient world. It probably helps that she had previously majored in archeology and has travelled extensively on dig sites so she has…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 11, 2023

  Book/Author Highlight

  #cleopatra'sdaughter, #historicalfiction, #michellemoran, #nefertiti, #rachelreads&reviews, #thehereticqueen, #therebelqueen, #thesecondempress

• November Books

  Hotel of Secrets by Diane Biller It is New Years Eve in Vienna and Maria Wallner is determined to rebbuild the Wallner Hotel, her family legacy even though her mother neglected it throughout the economic downturn. The hotel is her life and provides a distraction from romance which all of Vienna is waiting for her…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 1, 2023

  Book Suggestions

  #anitakunz, #ashleyherringblake, #avonromance, #berkleyromance, #blackstonepublishing, #chrisbohjalian, #chriscolfer, #coraline, #crystalsmithpaul, #dianebiller, #didyouhearaboutkittykarr, #historicalfiction, #iriskellydoesn’tdate, #janeausten, #justahat, #kilalaprincess, #manga, #memoir, #middlegrade, #midwives, #neilgainman, #nikkipayne, #nonfiction, #pantheonbooks, #prideandprotest, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #rikatanaka, #robinbenway, #skubiar, #strangerthanfanfiction, #theextraordinarysecretsofaprilmayandjune, #thelastblackunicorn, #tiffanyhaddish, #toyokopop, #womenshistory, #YA, hotelofsecrets