Strings Attached by Judy Blundell is seedy night clubs personified. With each turn of the page, one can practically smell the cigarette smoke wafting. The year is 1950 and Kit Corrigan has moved to New York City from Providence, Rhode Island in hopes of catching her big break and landing a role in a Broadway […]
Book Review: The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall by Mary Downing Hahn
April 4, 2011
I would classify The Ghost Of Crutchfield Hall by Mary Downing Hahn as historical fiction horror. The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall is a very brief middle grade book chock full of orphans, servants, a mean old lady, and a ghost. 12 year old Florence’s parents died in a boating accident when she was very young. […]
Book Review: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
March 9, 2011
Human history contains a great number of tragedies. Often, these are given a footnote, if that in the high school history textbook. While I could go on and on and on about how horrible history textbooks are, I won’t. Instead I will say to you, read Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen. I […]
Book Review: Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
March 7, 2011
I love it when a book leaves me thinking long after I have read it. I’m the type that flippantly reads books and trots on to the next one without sparing a thought except for the review. However, come to think of it, maybe I read historical fiction a bit differently, being a history nerd […]
Review: Fallen Grace by Mary Hooper
February 24, 2011
I’m not sure why it is that I find Victorian-era settings of historical fiction so irresistible. Surely, it’s not the lack of sexy-times. I know that sometimes less is more as far as sexual tension goes, but still. I guess the time period is fun. You got orphans, hats, gaslights, Dickens, spiritualism, a cavalcade of […]
Review: The Curse of the Wendigo by Rick Yancey
February 2, 2011
Rick Yancey doesn’t miss a beat in The Curse of the Wendigo, follow-up to The Monstrumologist. In this book, we start with Pellinore Warthrop being called on by an old lady friend from the past. FYI, there are no sexytimes so get your mind out of the gutter. Anyways, Muriel Chanler is concerned her hubby, […]