Tag: Historical Fiction
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Review: Stations
In Stations, two teens from troubled homes in 1980s Ireland form a bond that haunts the next 25 years. Sad and not for everyone.
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Review: Peck & Peck
Batter Gray loves poetry, and nobody thinks that’s a future. Peck & Peck lands him in a 1982 poetry journal full of feuds and secrets.
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Review: Partita
A Tennessee farm girl with a gift for piano falls for a fiery activist. How much heartbreak will her dreams cost her?
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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.
