Genre: Historical

Review: Alex and Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz

Posted March 13, 2018 by Charlotte in Reviews / 2 Comments

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.Alex and Eliza by Melissa de la Cruz Series: Alex & Eliza #1 Published by Macmillan Children’s Books on September 7th 2017 Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance, Young Adult Pages: 359 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Their romance shaped a nation. The rest was history. 1777. Albany, New York. As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing for one of New York society’s biggest events: the Schuylers’ grand ball. Descended from two of the oldest and most distinguished bloodlines in New York, the Schuylers are proud to be one of their fledgling country’s founding families, and even prouder still of their three daughters—Angelica, with her razor-sharp wit; Peggy, with her dazzling looks; and Eliza, whose beauty and charm rival that of both her sisters, though she’d rather be aiding the colonists’ cause than dressing up for some silly ball. Still, she can barely […]

Blog Tour / Review: Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh

Posted June 5, 2017 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments

Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh Published by Viking on July 13th 2017 Genres: Fiction, Historical Pages: 336 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Stepping off the boat in Mombasa, eighteen-year-old Rachel Fullsmith stands on Kenyan soil for the first time in six years. She has come home. But when Rachel reaches the family farm at the end of the dusty Rift Valley Road, she finds so much has changed. Her beloved father has moved his new partner and her son into the family home. She hears menacing rumours of Mau Mau violence, and witnesses cruel reprisals by British soldiers. Even Michael, the handsome Kikuyu boy from her childhood, has started to look at her differently. Isolated and conflicted, Rachel fears for her future. But when home is no longer a place of safety and belonging, where do you go, and who do you turn to? 1950s colonial Kenya made for an atmospheric setting for Leopard at the Door, as Rachel returns home to place that is not the same as she once remembered. Jennifer’s writing about Kenya is […]

Blog Tour / Review: The Wild Air by Rebecca Mascull

Posted May 2, 2017 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments

The Wild Air by Rebecca Mascull Published by Hodder & Stoughton on May 4th 2017 Genres: Fiction, Historical Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads In Edwardian England, aeroplanes are a new, magical invention, while female pilots are rare indeed. When shy Della Dobbs meets her mother’s aunt, her life changes forever. Great Auntie Betty has come home from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, across whose windswept dunes the Wright Brothers tested their historic flying machines. Della develops a burning ambition to fly and Betty is determined to help her. But the Great War is coming and it threatens to destroy everything – and everyone – Della loves. Uplifting and page-turning, THE WILD AIR is a story about love, loss and following your dreams against all odds. If you love historical fiction then The Wild Air is the book for you. This is a book about women ahead on their time and what adventure means to different people in the world of aviation. Follow your dreams people else you will always regret it. I loved the details and the background to this […]

Review: The Devil’s Feast by M.J. Carter

Posted October 26, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment

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.The Devil’s Feast by M.J. Carter Series: The Blake and Avery Mystery #3 Published by Fig Tree (Penguin Books UK) on October 27, 2016 Genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller Pages: 368 Format: Hardback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads For lovers of Sherlock, Shardlake and Ripper Street. A hugely enjoyable heart-pounding Victorian thriller- murder, a celebrity chef and a great detective double-act. London, 1842. There has been a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London’s newest and grandest gentleman’s club. A death the club is desperate to hush up. Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate, and soon discovers a web of rivalries and hatreds, both personal and political, simmering behind the club’s handsome façade-and in particular concerning its resident genius, Alexis Soyer, ‘the Napoleon of food’, a chef whose culinary brilliance is matched only by his talent for self-publicity. But Avery is distracted, for where his mentor and partner-in-crime Jeremiah […]

Review: The Disciple by Stephen Lloyd Jones

Posted October 15, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment

The Disciple by Stephen Lloyd Jones Published by Headline on October 6, 2016 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller Pages: 544 Format: E-Arc, Paperback Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads On a storm-battered road at the edge of the Devil’s Kitchen, a woman survives a fatal accident and gives birth to a girl who should never have lived. The child’s protection lies in the hands of Edward Schwinn – a loner who must draw himself out of darkness to keep her safe – and her arrival will trigger a chain of terrifying events that no one can explain. She is a child like no other, being hunted by an evil beyond measure. For if the potential within her is realised, nothing will be the same. Not for Edward. Not for any who live to see it. I was excited to get my hands on The Disciple ever since I saw that Stephen Lloyd Jones had written a new novel. This is completely different from The String Diaries that in some ways it is hard to see that each book is from the same […]

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