Book Reviews by Users [Archive] - Historical Fiction

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory
Nectar from a Stone by Jane Guill
Emilie's Voice by Susanne Dunlap
Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes
The Courtesan by Susan Carroll
In the Shadow of the Ark by Ann Provoost
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
The Dark Queen by Susan Carroll
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Serpent and the Moon by HRH Princess Michael of Kent
Marrying Mozart - Stephanie Cowell
Josephine B trilogy
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Sins of the Fathers by James Scott Bell
The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy by Elizabeth Aston
The True Darcy Spirit by Elizabeth Aston
Dragonwyck by Anya Seton
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
Royal Scandal by Philip Lindsay
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Penman
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles by Margaret George
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
Farewell, My Queen by Chantal Thomas
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
The Burning Time by Robin Morgan
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
A Lady Raised High by Laurien Gardner
Wolfskin by Juliet Marillier
Living My Life by Emma Goldman
Mark of the Lion by Suzanne Arruda
The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Mr. Emeron's Wife by Amy Belding Brown
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Green Rider by Kristen Britain
The White Mare by Jules Watson
Madame Royale by E.M. Vidal
Sarah by Marek Halter
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Silver's Edge by Anne Kelleher
Makepeace Burke Series by Diana Norman
The Barefoot Girl by Catherine Monroe
The Dawn Stag by Jules Watson
The Rose Without A Thorn by Jean Plaidy
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes
And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander
Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott
Sylvia by Bryce Courtenay
Rasputin's Daughter by Robert Alexander
Laybrinth by Kate Mosse
1919 Misfortune's End
In The Company Of The Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
The Rising Shore - Roanoke by Deborah Homsher
Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
28 Stories of AIDs in Africa by Stephenie Nolen
Book Review Guidelines
The King's Touch by Jude Morgan
Madame Zee by Pearl Luke
The Vanishing Point by Mary Sharratt
The Sixth Wife by Suzannah Dunn
The Perfect Royal Mistress by Diane Haeger
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
The Last Boelyn by Karen Harper
The Burning Times by Jeanne Kalogridis
Shadows & Strongholds by Elizabeth Chadwick
My Enemy the Queen by Victoria Holt
The Innocent by Posie Graeme-Evans
The Last Queen by CW Gortner
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
Douglass' Women
The Scarlet Lion by Elizabeth Chadwick
Finn by Jon Clinch
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
Rises the Night by Colleen Gleason
The Rest Falls Away by Colleen Gleason
Wife to the Bastard by Hilda Lewis
Wife to Charles II by Hilda Lewis
Imperium by Robert Harris
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
YA The Queen's Soprano by Carol Dines
The Italian Woman, Jean Plaidy
YA A Great and Terrible Beauty
Index - Alphabetical by author
The Silver Rose by Susan Carroll
Wild Lavender by Belinda Alexandra
Women at Home in Victorian America: A Social History
The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Through a Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen
The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
Plain Jane by Lauren Gardner
NF Alcott in her Own Time
Storm Front: Book 1 Dresden Files - Jim Butcher
NF - A Royal Affair: George III And His Scandalous Siblings by Stella Tillyard
NF - The Last Duel by Eric Jager
A Hollow Crown by Helen Hollick
The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley
Crocodile on the Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters
The last Wife of Henry VIII by Carolly Erickson
The Red Hat Club, Haywood Smith, Not HF
Louisa and the Missing Heiress by Anna Maclean
Elizabeth of Bohemia trilogy--Jane Stevenson
The Firemaster's Mistress by Christie Dickason
A Respectable Trade - Philippa Gregory
Beautiful Jim Key - Mim Eichler Rivas (non-fiction)
The Eagle and The Raven by Pauline Gedge
NF: The Light of the Home by Harvey Green
The Gypsy Madonna, Santa Montefiore
The Traitor's Wife by Susan Higginbotham
NF: The Dorothy Dunnett Companion (Books I & II) by Elspeth Morrison
NF: Victorian Keepsake
The Principessa by Christie Dickason
Emperor series, by Conn Iggulden
Web of Love by Mary Balogh
The End of Sorrow by J V Love
NF: Sword and Blossom by Peter Pagnamenta and Momoko Williams
Merlin Trilogy, by Mary Stewart. Book review
Royal Harlot: A novel of the Countess of Castlemaine...by Susan Holloway Scott
The Little House by Philippa Gregory
The Bull From the Sea, by Mary Renault
Western Passage by TJ Hanson One Woman's Journey on the Oregon Trail
Fearless by Lucia St. Clair Robson
NF: Passionate Minds: The Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment by David Bodanis
Seven Ox Seven
My Theodosia by Anya Seton
Encarnita's Journey, Joan Lingard
The Temple Dancer by John Speed
The Deception of the Emerald Ring by Lauren Willig
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig
NF: The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II by Wendy Slater
Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
Taj: The Woman and the Wonder by Sandra Wilson
YA: I am Rembrandt’s Daughter by Lynn Cullen
Orchid Bay, Patricia Shaw
NF: Victorian London's Middle Class Housewife: What she did all day
Sea Witch, by Helen Hollick
NF: Grace Brown's Love Letters by Craig Brandon
Princess Masako, Ben Hills
Odinn's Child, by Tim Severin
NF: The Medieval Tailors Assistant by Sarah Thursfield
NF: Hatshepsut - From Queen to Pharaoh by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
NF: Who Wore what?: Women’s War 1861-1865 by Juanita Leisch
Wolf Girl, by Theresa Tomlinson
The Tilecutter's Penny by Caiseal Mor
The Winter Mantle, by Elizabeth Chadwick
On Agate Hill by Lee Smith
The Travels of Jaimie Mcpheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
Helen of Troy by Margaret George
NF: Kingdom of the Ark, by Lorraine Evans
Mademoiselle Victorine by Debra Finerman
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Me and Mr Darcy By Alexandra Potter
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett
The Devil and Maria D'Avalos, Victoria Hammond
Empress Orchid, Anchee Min
NF: Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria by Greg King
The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell
Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
Dreaming the Bull by Manda Scott
Peony in Love by Lisa See
The Tudor Rose by Margaret Campbell Barnes
Coronach by Kimberley Jordan Reeman
NF: The Uncrowned Kings of England: The Black History of the Dudleys and the Tudor...
Trade Wind by M.M. Kaye
The Boar Stone by Jules Watson
The Queen of Subtleties: A Novel of Anne Boleyn by Suzannah Dunn
NF. The Kabul Beauty School, Deborah Rodriguez
Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik (Some spoilers)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Silver Wattle by Belinda Alexandra
YA: Juliette Ascending by Rosemary Poole-Carter
Why We Read What We Read (nonfiction)
Pope Joan by Donna Cross
The Needle in the Blood by Sarah Bower
Dreaming the Serpent-Spear by Manda Scott
The Wicked Day, by Mary Stewart
Winnie and Wolf by A N Wilson
A Place Beyond Courage by Elizabeth Chadwick
An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer
The Observations by Jane Harris
NF: King, Kaiser, Tsar by Catrine Clay
Dreaming the Hound by Manda Scott
No Graves as Yet by Anne Perry
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Barbed Wire and Roses by Peter Yeldham
The Eagle in the Sand, by Simon Scarrow
Reserved for the Cat by Mercedes Lackey
The Gilded Web by Mary Balogh
Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
None But You by Susan Kaye
Shoulder the Sky by Anne Perry
NF: Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
The Last Cavalier by Alexandre Dumas
Pompeii, by Robert Harris
Daughter of the Sun
The Smoke by Tony Broadbent
Julia, by William Napier
Treason by Meredith Whitford
By Honor Bound by Helen Rosburg
Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead
YA: Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale
The Persimmon Tree by Bryce Courtenay
Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
The House of Lanyon by Valerie Anand
HM Silver Lies by Ann Parker
Wolf of the Plains by Conn Igguldon
Forever Amber by Kathleen Windsor
NF Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England by Maureen Waller
The Pirates Own Book-Charles Ellms
The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Kathryn in the Court of Six Queens by Anne Meton Abbey
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
NF: Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox
The Golden Tulip by Rosalind Laker
NF: The Secret Middle Ages: Discovering the Real Medieval World, by Malcolm Jones.
Angels in the Gloom by Anne Perry
Kenilworth by Walter Scott
NF: The Last Princess by Matthew Dennison
The Second Batlle, by Erik S. Larsen
The Venetian Betrayal, Steve Berry
Death at Dawn by Caro Peacock
East of Time by Jacob G Rosenberg
Mademoiselle Boleyn by Robin Maxwell.
YA: The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
High are the Mountains by Hannah Closs
19C British Lit Hester by Margaret Oliphant
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon
The Alchemist's Daughter by Katharine McMahon
Good King Harry by Denise Giardina