Tag: Historical Fiction
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Review: The Pirate Queen
Women on ships bring bad luck, they say, but Grace O’Malley has the sea in her blood. In The Pirate Queen, she defies the Crown.
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Review: The Birthing Tree
The Birthing Tree is about grief and the cost of a tradition the world decided to leave behind, told through generations of a Mi’kmaw family.
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Review: The Calamity Club
The Calamity Club, a story of an orphaned girl, a bookkeeper, and a woman with secrets form an unlikely alliance during the Great Depression.
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Review: The Bright Years
The Bright Years looks like a sweet love story at first, but it hides addiction, secrets, and a family falling apart underneath.
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Review: Demon Copperhead
Demon Copperhead, forced to grow up too fast amid poverty, addiction, and a broken foster system. A rich retelling of a Dickens classic.
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Review: The Trees
Brutal murders shake the town where Emmett Till died, and the truth cuts deeper than anyone feared. The Trees is haunting and funny.
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Review: Atmosphere
Atmosphere tells what happens when ambition burns bright: the sacrifice, the growth, and the real cost of dreams.
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Review: At Night All Blood is Black
This Booker Prize winner exposes the true cost of war: how it destroys humanity and feeds the machinery of colonialism.
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Review: Yesteryear
Yesteryear follows a tradwife influencer pulled into the life she markets online. A bold take on gender and faith.
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Review: The Names
A son. A name. A single moment that reshapes an entire family’s fate. The Names will make you take a look back at your own life differently.
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Review: The Lion Women of Tehran
A theme-rich novel spanning decades and two worlds, soaked in friendship, freedom, and everything women have always fought for.
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Review: Broken Country
A buried secret, a shocking murder, and a love story nothing like you expect. Broken Country is the unputdownable read you did not see coming.
