Most people would consider Nell Stillman’s life rather ordinary. Harvester, Minnesota was founded when God was a boy, and no amount of modern conveniences seem able to drag it into the modern age. But when you look closer, you see that Nell’s life is actually extraordinary. She raises her son alone, falls in love, experiences…
Tag: historical fiction
Review: Deception’s Princess
Princess Maeve has been her father’s favorite child since the age of five, when she tricked and outran his herds’ devilish black bull. And now that he is High King, Maeve is the favorite of many — particularly those looking to gain a kingdom along with a wife. Maeve is not interested in being the…
Review: Roosevelt’s Beast
In 1914, Theodore Roosevelt, his son Kermit, and a handful of naturalists and explorers began a months-long trip down the Rio da Dúvida (River of Doubt), an unmapped tributary of Brazil’s great Amazon River. The expedition claimed the lives of several, and nearly killed Roosevelt. Louis Bayard’s novel Roosevelt’s Beast uses this true trip as…
Review: Hild
Little is known about the girl who would eventually come to be known as St. Hilda of Whitby: she was born in 614 A.D., baptised in 627, disappeared from written record, and reappeared 20 years later and became a powerful political advisor and teacher. Hild is author Nicola Griffith’s attempts to fill in the historical…
Review: The Midwife’s Tale
It is 1644 in York, England; while most of the town’s citizens think the greatest danger sits encamped outside the city, midwife Lady Bridget Hodgson and her assistant Martha know better. Esther Cooper stands accused of poisoning her husband, and Bridget and Martha have just a few days to save their friend from her demise…