Book Review: Deborah Harkness’ Time’s Convert
A fascinating exploration, as we follow Marcus MacNeil, a young “Doc” from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening from the Revolutionary War through the French Terror.
Genre: historical fiction
Book Review: Gail Carriger’s Reticence
The crew of the Spotted Custard is a misfit family, especially Prof Percival Tunstell caught up in his research and books. Then accidental spies, a trip to Japan, and one smart and beautiful doctor disrupts his life.
Book Review: Robert Beatty’s Willa of the Wood
When Willa encounters Nathaniel, one of the day-folk, she begins to question what she’s been told for most of her life. Questions that will reveal all too much.
Book Review: Robert Beatty’s Serafina and the Black Cloak
No one must know that Serafina exists, when children at the estate start disappearing, only Serafina knows who the culprit is, and she must risk forces with Braeden Vanderbilt.
Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s The Bartered Brides
With Sherlock Holmes dead, it falls to Nan Killian and Sarah Lyon-White with their friends John and Mary Watson to find the madman cutting the heads off young brides.
Book Review: Rhys Bowen’s The Tuscan Child
Guilt and the need to escape her own trauma finds Joanna Langley pursuing unrevealed truths about her distant father’s past only to find others prefer the past be left alone.
Book Review: Lee Child’s MatchUp
Eleven short stories in a matchup of fiction and thriller writers — a man and a woman pairing — revolving around a blend of the main characters in each pair of authors’ series.
Book Review: Diana Gabaldon’s Seven Stones to Stand or Fall
An anthology of seven short stories in the Outlander / Lord John Gray historical fiction series with an emphasis on the military side with Lord John’s involvement.
Book Review: Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Deadmen Walking
To catch evil, it takes evil. And the captain and crew of the Sea Witch are deadmen with tales to tell and evil to banish back, back to their hell realms and repair the gates.
Book Review: Naomi Novik’s Tongues of Serpents
Temeraire and Capt. Will Laurence are transported to Australia, despite their heroic aid, only to be dumped into yet more political turmoil between power-hungry politicians.