By Jaime Hypes on April 15, 2012
Nuncio and the Gypsy Girl is not your typical graphic novel. There are several historical figures, a love triangle, and no action-driven plotline. It is also narrated by an African Grey Parrot named Nuncio. Taking place at the turn of the century in Dayton, OH, the characters are right in the middle of the making of many great inventions, and intellectual society.
Posted in Historical, Jaime Hypes, Reviews | Tagged graphic novel, historical fiction, jaime hypes, Kristin Alexandre, Nuncio and The Gypsy Girl in the Gilded Age |
By Susan Anderson on March 17, 2012
I loved THE TITANIC PLAN. The story, the writing, the characters engaged me from start to finish. And a hefty book it is, over 8100 locations. By my reckoning, that’s somewhere between 160,000 and 200,000 words. Compared to the size of a mystery or western, it’s portly.
Posted in Historical, Susan Anderson | Tagged Big Bill Haywood, economy fiction, Emma Goldman; Theodore Roosevelt, historical fiction, J. Pierpont Morgan, John Astor, social upheaval, wall street fiction, William Howard Taft, William Vanderbilt; labor leaders |
By Jaime Hypes on March 3, 2012
The Last Way Station is a speculative fantasy novella chronicling Adolf Hitler’s time after his suicide. Reisfeld gives us a world where Hitler is stuck in a kind of purgatory, unable to move on until his ‘caseworker’ finds him fit to do so. Hitler is forced to relive the atrocities he inflicted upon others- from his victims’ perspective, as he is placed into the bodies of each and every person he affected.
Posted in Historical, Jaime Hypes, Science Fiction/Fantasy | Tagged genocide, historical fantasy, hitler, hitler fiction, holocaust, jon reisfeld, the last way station |
By Susan Anderson on February 17, 2012
Unforgettable saga of a family and its secrets, a contemporary woman’s “Zorba The Greek”
Posted in Historical, Susan Anderson | Tagged historical fiction, holocaust fiction, joanna tombrakos, susan anderson, the secrets they kept |
By C. V. Hunt on January 21, 2012
Britannia, 61 A.D. For ten years, Taras has lived in the young city of Londinium, feeding off the city’s underbelly. But now Theron, his old enemy, has come looking for revenge, and Taras’ nights of living in relative peace are about to end.
Posted in C.V. Hunt, Historical, Horror/Supernatural | Tagged 61 a.d., bestseller horror, c.v. hunt, david mcafree, historical horror, vampire fiction |
By Daniel Pearson on November 22, 2011
The story of two twins, Emma and Ethan, their friend Zak and their supervisor Dr Currant. They live in the year 2028, a sterile world where EVERYTHING is monitored and watched. The cold hearted and ever alert governors of the USA are known as MOM. MOM has even gone as far as to put implants into children under the guise of vaccinations. History has been skimmed of anything that doesn’t fit MOM’s desires.
Posted in Daniel Tomas Pearson, Historical | Tagged jfk chicago, jfk time travel, saving jfk, time travel twins, w. green |
By Dan Marvin on August 1, 2011
The Raven Girl Kathy Cecala ISBN 978 146 106 6378 CreateSpace Copyright © April 2011 236 Pages Paperback $12.00 Kindle $2.99 You might look at the words “Historical Fiction” and “Young Adult” and decide to pass on The Raven Girl by Kathy Cecala. I almost did, there are other reviewers who typically review the young [...]
Posted in Dan Marvin, Historical, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged Dan Marvin, historical fiction, kathy cecala, the raven girl, YA book review, young adult |
By Shannon Yarbrough on July 27, 2011
Termination Orders: Code Name Cobra by Leo Maloney with Caio Camargo Independent Publishing House Copyright © January 2011 ISBN: 0615419887 249 Pages $14.99 Paperback Amazon.com When Dan Morgan (code name Cobra), a former Black Ops contractor, is asked to come out of retirement to help the CIA with a mission, he is hesitant at first. [...]
Posted in Action/Adventure, Fiction, Historical, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged code name cobra, leo maloney, termination orders |
By Peter Hassebroek on December 16, 2010
Just as Sabrina Grainger falls off a party boat into the Caribbean in 2009, so the reader is dropped right into the action of The Noble Pirates. R. L. Jean (a.k.a. Fiction Chick) makes the reader and her protagonist fend for themselves. Much easier for the reader who is aided by the accomplished storytelling than for poor Sabrina Grainger—a mother, wife, and attorney—whose plunge sinks her nearly three centuries into the world of pirates.
Posted in Action/Adventure, Fiction, Historical, Peter Hassebroek, Reviews | Tagged adventure, book review, historical fiction |
By Peter Hassebroek on November 1, 2010
The cover quote from Michael Balkind says, “Fast moving and funny, The Purples has a hard edge, a soft heart, and an original voice.” I’ve never read a more apt blurb.
Posted in Fiction, Historical, Mystery/Suspense, Peter Hassebroek | Tagged berger, book review, detroit, Fiction, gangster, historical fiction, purples |
