Genre: Historical

Review: These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

Posted January 12, 2022 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

I received this book for free from Fairyloot, Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong Series: These Violent Delights #1 Published by Hodder & Stoughton on November 17, 2020 Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Mystery, Retelling, Romance, Young Adult Pages: 464 Format: E-Arc, Hardback Source: Fairyloot, Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Tricia Lin at Simon Pulse has acquired, at auction, Chloe Gong’s debut YA fantasy These Violent Delights, pitched as a Romeo and Juliet retelling by way of The Godfather. A monster has awakened in 1920s Shanghai, killing off citizens and stirring trouble between two feuding gangs. The rival heirs, Roma Montagov and Juliette Cai, must work together before the monster destroys all they hold dear, even while the Chinese Civil War breaks out around them. Publication is planned for fall 2020; Laura Crockett at TriadaUS Literary Agency did the two-book deal for North American rights. These Violent Delights is a book that I read over a year ago and have […]

Blog Tour / Review: A Mother’s Secret by Kitty Neale

Posted September 16, 2021 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments
Blog Tour / Review: A Mother’s Secret  by Kitty Neale

I received this book for free from Netgalley, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.A Mother’s Secret by Kitty Neale Series: The Battersea Tavern Series #1 Published by Orion Publishing Group on March 4, 2021 Genres: Fiction, Historical Pages: 400 Format: E-Arc, Paperback Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads The heartwrenching new novel from bestselling author Kitty NealeCan she put right the secrets of the past? London, 1939. Winnie Berry has been the landlady of the Battersea Tavern for nearly twenty-five years, and the pub is like home to her – a place of tears and laughter, full of customers that feel like family. A place where she’s learned to avoid the quick fists of her husband, and where she’s raised her beloved son, David. He’s inherited his father’s lazy streak and can’t seem to hold down a job, but when war is declared Winnie is determined to keep her son safe. She’s still haunted by the choice she made years ago as a […]

Blog Tour / Review: Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg

Posted May 21, 2021 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments
Blog Tour / Review: Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg

I received this book for free from Netgalley, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg Series: Marion Lane #1 Published by Trapeze on June 10, 2021 Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Mystery, Thriller Pages: 336 Format: E-Arc, Hardback Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads They were a band of mysterious private detectives who lived beneath the streets of London in a labyrinth of twisted tunnels and ancient hallways, the entrance to which no one had ever found. The Inquirers were something of a myth, a whispered legend that may or may not exist, depending on whom you asked. They were like ghosts, some said, these sleuths who guarded the city… London, 1958: Elaborately disguised and hidden deep beneath the city’s streets lies the world of Miss Brickett’s, a secret detective agency, training and housing the mysterious Inquirers. From traversing deceptive escape rooms full of baited traps and hidden dangers, to engineering almost magical mechanical gadgets, apprentice detectives […]

Review: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

Posted November 6, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix Published by Gollancz on September 22, 2020 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Young Adult Pages: 416 Format: Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but Susan doesn’t get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin. Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller (one of the fighting ones), who with the right-handed booksellers (the intellectual ones), are an extended family of magical beings who police the mythic and legendary Old World when it intrudes on the modern world, in addition to running several bookshops. Susan’s search for her father begins with her mother’s possibly misremembered or misspelt […]

Review: My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan by Sufiya Ahmed

Posted October 22, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan by Sufiya Ahmed

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan by Sufiya Ahmed Published by Scholastic Children’s Books on August 6, 2020 Genres: Biography, Fiction, Historical, History, Non-Fiction Pages: 208 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads My Story: Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan is the thrilling story of British-Indian World War Two heroine, Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan. It’s 1940 and hundreds of families are being forced to flee Nazi-occupied France. Noor refuses to stand by while Nazi forces invade her home and terrorise her people, so she travels to England and signs up to join the war efforts despite her mother’s wishes. It isn’t long before her talents are noticed and she is chosen by Winston Churchill to sneak back into France as an undercover agent. Noor returns home but this time, as a secret agent Can Noor keep her true identity a secret, report her findings back to London and help the Allies win the war? I […]