Category: Historical Fiction
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Is Stalking Jack the Ripper a Good Historical Fiction Murder Mystery?
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco is an introduction for YA readers into the marvels of historical fiction, more specifically, the historical fiction murder mystery realm. But the problem I have with it is that it doesn’t feel like a truly memorable book, and its subject matter is the Jack the Ripper case which…
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Riley Sager’s The Only One Left Left Me Wanting More
The Only One Left has been floating around social media for a while now, popping up on “anticipated reads of the month” posts and all sorts for what seems like months. It’s been on my library requests for almost as long too and with every new post I saw including it I was slowly getting…
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Lev AC Rosen’s The Bell in the Fog is Like a Fine Wine
I loved Lavender House and I love Bell in the Fog even more. Lev AC Rosen is a brilliant writer and has captured the world of 1950s America from a queer lens with such vivid detail and truth. While this one is shorter, it is no less gripping and I need to gush about it…
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Hasn’t Convinced Me
I read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid over a few days, getting a handful of chapters in during evenings and finishing up the rest over the weekend. Now that it’s done, I can’t help but wish there was more to it. More about the story that wasn’t to do with…
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Questions are Answered in A Fatal Illusion
I’ve been wondering for some time now when we will get some explanation in regards to the way Lord Gage speaks of and treats his family. He has been such a prevalent character in the latter half of the series and it seems strange the murkiness surrounding such backstory would be pushed back time and…