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I Would Not Survive in 1855…And I Wouldn’t Want To

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

August 30, 2026 by Melina 1 Comment

We meet bright, but cold Natalie Heller as she goes off to Harvard. Instead of experiencing the world, making friends and learning, the experience shows her that what she knows is “right” and that the world is wicked. She meets a man, a man who’s family is wealthy and heavily connected to politics and she sees in him someone she can mold and make the perfect husband. They quickly marry and things immediately go downhill. Natalie loathes her husband. He has no ambition, he wants […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: Caro Claire Burke, yesteryear

Melina's CBR18 Review No:5 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: Caro Claire Burke, yesteryear ·
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Well gosh darn, dang it all to heck

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

June 7, 2026 by Zirza Leave a Comment

We all know the trend: young women deliberately turning their backs on the modern world and cosplaying the rural homesteading lifestyle, where they grow their own veggies, bake their own bread, butcher their own chickens and make their own clothing. The lifestyle is then perfectly captured on social media, with carefully curated pictures of blond children in gingham dresses and cowboy boots, and posts that are clearly political in nature masked as just-asking-questions. Comments on social media posts split themselves between admiration and vitriol, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: Caro Claire Burke, influencers, tradwives, yesteryear

Zirza's CBR18 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: Caro Claire Burke, influencers, tradwives, yesteryear ·
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