My review of Lady of the Seven Suns. To read Lady of the Seven Suns is to savor that rarest of reading pleasures: you will live another person’s life to the full, vicarious time travel at its empathetic best.
A Victorian gaslamp series for those who love Greek mythology mixed into their historical fantasy.
Judith Starkston’s review of A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay. Another brilliant novel from a literary giant of historical fantasy.
A murder mystery with a supernatural twist, Murder Casts Its Spell entertains with heart. A recommended paranormal mystery by Margaret Morse
My review of Nancy Bilyeau’s The Blue. Fast-paced action, passionate emotions, international intrigue and life or death stakes propel the reader through this outstanding historical thriller set in 18th century London, Derby and France.
My review of Rebecca Kuang’s The Poppy War. If you love fantasy that is enriched with a deep foundation of history and that asks the biggest questions about how human beings treat each other, then definitely read Rebecca Kuang’s The Poppy War.
My review of The Year-God’s Daughter by Rebecca Lochlann. Lochlann takes her reader into the mythic, mystical world of Minoan Crete with vibrancy and power.
Beth Cato delivers page-turning fantasy adventure in the first two of her Blood of Earth series, Breath of Earth and Call of Fire. Ingrid, Breath of Earth’s hero reveals magical geomancy skills that can tip the balance of the world, politically and physically, and that makes for an exciting plot and fast-paced action, but Cato gives her reader even more. She’s built an alternative history (set in 1906) that flips the prism through which we understand our society.
My review of Ann Griffin’s Another Ocean to Cross, a WWII novel that offers hope over despair
My review of Jessica McCann’s haunting and heartwarming Peculiar Savage Beauty, a novel set in Kansas in 1934 when the Plains states are overwhelmed by dusters and disaster.
