Tag: #historicalfiction
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I must say Cat Royal’s adventures get more interesting as they progress as this tale of identity and revolution may be my favorite so far.
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The second of Cat Royal’s adventures is a bit heavier than the previous fare as Pedro’s former master returns to force him back on the Jaimacan plantation or worse.
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Since finishing the Bloody Jack series, I have gone onto another series efaturing a spunky British redhead brought up from the streets of London, navigating the two worlds between the London slums and high society. Set in 1790, a whole decade before Bloody Jack, the series is a more a light mystery than the historical…
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Since I enjoyed Lee’s Gamora and Nebula novel, I decided to check out the first of Marvel Icons. Luckily, I know a little about what Loki does in the MCU since The Avengers is the only MCU movie I’ve seen but that doesn’t matter as this is an origin story where we take a fun…
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We have come to the end of the line as Meyer presents the last adventure of the cork-like Jacky Faber. But will her fate end at the gallows as she so direly predicted back when she was a young street urchin in London?
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Jacky is back in her beloved Beantown and while she does not burn the place down as she did in her first stay, she still brings about plenty of trouble. She is “ever so hard on her friends,” as well as one Jaimy Fletcher but we’ll get to that.
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The inodimatble Jacky Faber is back, blackmailed by the British Intelligence into a new mission where she is sent over the hills and far away to the plains in Spain to be exact. . . And Portugal but that doesn’t fit the rhyme. Anyway, being Jacky her mission to spy on the French as they…
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Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough I figured I should have just one more spooky book to close out Halloween. Well technically it’s more thriller than horror but it has several hallmarks such as crazy killers, superatural threat and the prevailing theme that seeps through ever horror and thriller, who can you trust and can you ever…
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This historical saga by Gene Luen Yang imparts the history of the Boxer Rebellion from the people in the rebellion rather than the dusty old textbooks focusing on the Europeans views of things. Filled with tragedy, magical realism and some humor with expressive visuals that keep the story moving.
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1. Why does the Late Regency/Victorian era appeal to you (and why do you think it appeals to so many others)? I think popular pieces of media, be that novels by Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte or historical dramas, have made the Regency and Victorian eras recognizable and familiar, and yet an escape at the same…
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