Category: Historic Fiction

ARC Review: The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner

ARC Review: The Last Year of t..

Posted March 15, 2019 by Alana in Book Reviews, Historic Fiction, Women's Fiction / 2 Comments

The Last Year of the War Susan Meissner Genre: Historical Fiction Published: March 19, 2019 (Berkley) Rating: Synopsis: Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943–aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved […]

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ARC Review: The Lieutenant’s Nurse by Sara Ackerman

ARC Review: The LieutenantR..

Posted March 5, 2019 by Alana in Book Reviews, Historic Fiction, Historical Romance, Romance, Sara Ackerman / 0 Comments

The Lieutenant’s Nurse Sara Ackerman Genre: Historical Fiction, Historical Romance Published: March 5, 2019 (MIRA) Rating: Goodreads Synopsis: November, 1941. She’s never even seen the ocean before, but Eva Cassidy has her reasons for making the crossing to Hawaii, and they run a lot deeper than escaping a harsh Michigan winter. Newly enlisted as an Army Corps nurse, Eva is stunned by the splendor she experiences aboard the steamship SS Lurline; even more so by Lt. Clark Spencer, a man to whom […]

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ARC Review: The Secret Vow by Natalie Meg Evans

ARC Review: The Secret Vow by ..

Posted December 11, 2018 by Alana in Book Reviews, Historic Fiction, Historical Romance, Romance / 0 Comments

The Secret VowNatalie Meg EvansLength: 380Published: December 11, 2018 (Bookouture)Rating:  Amazon   Goodreads Goodreads Synopsis:Katya – young, beautiful and impoverished – arrives in Paris, hoping to begin a new life. She leaves behind a terrible secret, and her survival in this strange and beautiful new city depends on nobody ever discovering who – and what – she is.  Immediately, Katya is swept up in the city’s glamour – particularly the boutiques on the main boulevard, where glittering gowns are hand-sewn for […]

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