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Special Feature and Excerpt: These Tangled Threads by Sarah Loudin Thomas
This author is a new to me author which is one of the reasons why I wanted to check this book out! I love discovering new to me authors! Often I have authors that I already know and love or maybe a good friend or family member recommends someone to me, but overall I have kind of my ‘set go to’ authors. Which is all well and good but one of the reasons I started book reviewing is because I wanted to find new authors. This author has written quite a new books so she is not new to the writing world but new on my radar! This book is…
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Review: A Noble Scheme (The Imposters #2) by Rosanna M White
This author is a new to me author but I am already looking into the other books in this series! From the review pitch, I could see this was part of a series but that it could be read as a standalone which I completely agree with—it can easily be a standalone. But it was so fun and I quickly got sucked in and started looking into the series as a whole! While I know this book is only the second one, I see a third book is planned for November which I am excited to check out! While this is a new to my author, I could see that…
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Review: Chasing the Horizon (A Western Light #1) by Mary Connealy
A few years ago I read a book completely out of my typical historical fiction time period, Where the Lost Wander. I absolutely LOVED this book for so many reasons and I have since been looking for ‘the right’ book to read next that might fit within that time period. There aren’t a lot of popular historical fiction books set in the American West that draw me in. Don’t get me wrong I love the American West from a historical standpoint and I grew up watching all the cowboy TV shows (Dr Quinn and Young Riders I am looking at you!) but it’s typically not a genre of book that…
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Review: A Winter by the Sea (On Devonshire Shores #2) by Julie Klassen
I featured this book when the cover reveal came out and since then I have been so excited to read this one! I read the first book in the series last year and really enjoyed it and couldn’t wait for the next installment in the series. Not to mention I am a big fan of Julie Klassen so naturally I had this one on my radar for months prior to its release! And honestly how could you not get excited about this book when you see the cover??? The Cover is stunning and I just knew it would be a good that would grab my attention! Julia Klassen is a…
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Special Feature/Excerpt: The Vanishing at Castle Moreau by Jaime Jo Wright
If I was just looking at this book cover I would have thought two things—-it was set in France and it was a historical romance novel. Well I am semi right, it is a historical romance BUT it also has some Gothic elements with a bit of mystery. Though it is not set in France as I suspected but rather a Wisconsin castle. Random. I haven’t really been to the Midwest and it’s decidedly not the setting I was expecting or can even wrap my mind around but here we are. Even if the setting sounded a bit random for me, I was excited about this one all the same.…
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Special Feature/Excerpt: When Tomorrow Came by Hannah Linder
Authors like Hannah Linder and Julia Klassen have a corner stone on historical Christian fiction for a reason. They are both tried and proven authors and I personally have enjoyed many of their books. I love historical Christian fiction as they often feature a love interest and some kind of mystery a little reminiscent of Victoria Holt. Often the books feature a governess or woman who is down on her luck and happens to find work at a manor house with a checkered past and a dashing but brooding hero that the heroine can’t resist falling for. It’s a troupe that never gets old for me and one that for…
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Cover Reveal: A Winter by the Sea (On Devonshire Shores #2) by Julie Klassen
As many of you know, I have been a big Julie Klassen fan over the years. Recently I read the first book in the On Devonshire Shores series and really enjoyed it. Today I am thrilled to reveal the cover for the second book in this series! It is an absolute beauty! I am super excited to check this one out. It’s releasing in December of 2023 so we have a while to wait. But why not stare and admire this lovely cover until then! Check out all the details below and use this time to read the first book in the series while you wait for this one to…
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Special Feature/Excerpt: The Maid of Ballymacool by Jennifer Deibel
Who doesn’t love a historical fiction, Cinderella retelling set on the Emerald Isle?! I haven’t been reading a ton of historical fiction lately which makes me sad, but this book caught my eyer as an option! I love Cinderella and It thought the plot sounded really interesting as well as having a hint of romance which made me even more excited to check this one out. Plus the Emerald Isle? YES PLEASE! I need some escapism during these long cold winter months even if it’s equally as rainy and dreary there, I love dreaming about my next escape destination. While I couldn’t fit this one on my review schedule for…
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Review: Hearts of Steel (The Blackstone Legacy #3) by Elizabeth Camden
When this book came up for review, I almost passed on it. I could see it was part of a series and I just wasn’t sure how it would go jumping into an established series with established characters. But it sounded so good, plus I loved the cover, that I just couldn’t pass on this one! Often times, I also find that romances tend to be more standalone even if they are part of a series, so in the end I decided to give this one a shot and dive into a series already three books in. To my delight, I found that all that worry was for not. This…
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Special Feature/Excerpt: The Rose and the Thistle by Laura Frantz
It’s been a long time since I have read a book set in the 1700s. Most of the historical fiction books I read are usually in the Victorian or late Regency era—not that there is any shortage of 1700s era historical fiction books, but in general I tend to gravitate toward the Victorian or Regency era novels when I pick them up. Seeing that this one was set in the 1700s was actually what grabbed me, it was different than my comfort era go to books! For me the Jacobite era is very complicated and in the past I have hard a hard time keeping some of the issues straight…