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Wales Finally Gets Its Due

Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

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From the time I was a teenager through a good portion of my twenties, historical fiction was my go to genre.  John Jakes, James Michener, Edward Rutherford and others were among some my most reliable authors.  Michener and Rutherford would take one location, and use one or two families across the centuries (or millennia) to hit the highlights of English, Polish or Hawaiian history in one comprehensive tome, while John Jakes wrote sweeping family dramas spanning several books.  I also loved novels like The Mists of Avalon because it was mostly historical fiction with some fantasy aspects and from the […]

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4/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:59 |

Someone needs to live to tell the story …

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

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I don’t remember how this novel ended up on my radar but it was in my Kindle’s TBR pile, and I figured it was a good time to start slowly working my way through some of the back log. The Weight of Ink is one of those novels with a split time line, with some parts taking place in the early 21st century, while the main story is set in London in 1650s to 1660s. Helen Watt is history professor on the verge of retirement when a former student contacts her about some documents he and his wife have discovered […]

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4/17/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:53 |

Women & Espionage in the World Wars

The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn

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The Alice Network by Kate Quinn is an ambitious work of historical fiction that straddles two world wars and their aftermath, and that shines a light on the heroic work of female spies. Quinn uses a solid base of historical fact and real people to create her fictional heroine Eve (aka Evelyn Gardiner, aka Marguerite Le Francois), a spy for England in WWI who made shattering sacrifices and has never healed from her tragic and brutal experiences. Eve is an alcoholic recluse when, in the spring of 1947, an assertive and unrelenting American girl named Charlie (Charlotte), who is single […]

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4/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

Sometimes a Book Teaches Us About Ourselves

Whisper of the Moon Moth by Lindsay Jayne Ashford

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This is kind of a tough review for me to write. In the course of reading this book I came to realize something about myself. I really am not a fan of fictional stories that revolve around real people and their histories, at least not as long as those people are recent enough that people who knew them could still be alive. This book is about the rise of 1950s movie actress Merle Oberon, and she only died in 1977. Along with that, as she’s a movie star in the age of the studio system, a huge chunk of the […]

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4/11/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:4 |

Wherein we find out even more about Stoker’s past

A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn

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Spoiler warning! This is book three in a series, and as such, this review may spoil details from the two earlier books. If you want to start at the beginning, A Curious Beginning is the first book. Veronica Speedwell and her colleague and sometime partner in crime-solving, Stoker (Revelstoke Templeton-Vane) are alerted to the fact that Stoker may well come under public scrutiny in a criminal case. John de Morgan, Stoker’s former best friend and one time expedition partner, the man who ended up marrying Stoker’s ex-wife after a very public scandal, has disappeared without a trace, along with a very valuable jewelled […]

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4/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

Another tale of brave teenagers in time of war

Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse

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Girl in the Blue Coat won the 2017 Edgar Award for Best YA Mystery and is one of the most thrilling and engaging books I have read in a while. I started this book one afternoon and tore through 200 pages in no time, and I couldn’t wait to finish the last 100 pages the next day. Set in 1943 Amsterdam, Girl in the Blue Coat tells the story of Hanneke Bakker, an 18-year-old girl who is trying her best to support her parents and herself during WWII. The Nazis have occupied Hanneke’s country, creating danger and hardship for the […]

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4/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:14 |

Artists and orgies and murder…oh my

A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

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Spoiler warning! This is the second book in the series, and the review will contain certain spoilers for the first book, A Curious Beginning. Therefore, if you’re not all caught up and don’t want the ending of that book and Veronica’s background spoiled for you, skip this review until you’re caught up. Veronica Speedwell and her partner in mischief, Stoker (full name Revelstoke Templeton-Vane) were all set to go on an exciting expedition to the South Pacific when their employer, Lord Rosemorran, fell over his giant tortoise and broke his leg. Veronica’s aunt, the Princess Louise, asks for help to clear the […]

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4/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:23 |

The bravery of teenagers puts us all to shame

The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe

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The Librarian of Auschwitz is a fictionalized account of real events that occurred in the Auschwitz-Birkenau labor camp, 1944-45. The main character Dita Adler is based on a real person named Dita Polachova Kraus who was 15 years old when she and her parents were rounded up with other Jews from Prague and sent to the Nazi camps. At Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dita worked in what was known as the “family compound” in Block 31. Prisoners here were given “special treatment”; children were allowed to survive and even had a sort of sanctioned youth group thanks to an inmate named Fredy Hirsch. […]

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4/3/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:13 |


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