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  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Ruby Red Review

    Gwenyth Monterose is a normal sixteen year old. Her cousin, Charlotte is the one who is destined for great things. Born a day before, she is the chosen girl that has the time traveler gene, something that is passed and skipped through each generation. Gwenyth is fine with the fact, she wouldn’t want to spend…

  • Book Highlight: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

    Evelyn Hugo is a straight up icon. While initally readers may believe she’s an icon in the traditional Hollywood style. For having seven husbands (take that Liz Taylor. Yeah, she had 8 but two of those were the same man. Hugo was actually seven different men), having the perfect body with a contrast of blonde…

  • Top 5 Rose Years

    Just as I finally read the Little House on the Prarie series last summer, now I’ve gotten to her daughter’s life written by a close friend, Roger Lea McBride as Rose Wilder becomes a new kind of pioneer.