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The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind small

Zanzara by Gloria Vitanza Basile

January 2, 2024 by Pooja 2 Comments

Born in poverty and raised in a squalid orphanage, Phaedra’s life transforms completely when her identity as a prince’s illegitimate daughter is revealed, vaunting her into the lap of luxury. But she has a long, tough path to tread still before she will reach her happy ending. I really, really love the crazy bloody bodice rippers of the 1970s and 80s. They are always wild and adventurous, often with a strong historical grounding, and take you careening through the kind of heroine’s journey that leave […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: bodice ripper, Gloria Vitanza Basile, historical, Italy, mental illness, Romance, royalty, Sicily, violence, war

Pooja's CBR16 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: bodice ripper, Gloria Vitanza Basile, historical, Italy, mental illness, Romance, royalty, Sicily, violence, war ·
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“Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.”

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

December 12, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

On St. Valentine’s Day in 1900, three Australian schoolgirls and their teacher vanish while on a school outing at Hanging Rock. Though they have disappeared from view like a rock dropped into water, the consequences of what happened will ripple outward until they touch the stories of even those who had been on the periphery of their lives. I’ve had my eye on the book for a few months now, so when I opened my Cannonball Book Exchange package from ElCiccio to find she’d send […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: Australia, classics, gothic, historical, horror, Joan Lindsay, mystery, Victorian

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:92 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: Australia, classics, gothic, historical, horror, Joan Lindsay, mystery, Victorian ·
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Pioneer Woman

Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women by Marianne Monson

The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore

November 19, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Frontier Grit – 3.5 stars In this book we meet twelve women who traversed the American frontier in search of their dreams, though what these dreams were and the paths they took to them vary extraordinarily. As a child I devoured Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books. Though I’ve have quite a lot of bubbles burst about her depiction of her childhood (check out Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Fires to learn more), my interest in those so-called pioneers who tried to ‘tame’ the Wild West still persists, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Western Tagged With: 19th century, biography, california, Heather B. Moore, historical, history, human trafficking, Marianne Monson, United States

Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Western · Tags: 19th century, biography, california, Heather B. Moore, historical, history, human trafficking, Marianne Monson, United States ·
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The Loyalty Test

Stand With Me, Earl by Kate Archer

September 29, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Viola is drawn to Roland, the Earl of Baderston, but she wants him to prove his loyalty before she’ll wed him. However, things go much farther than she expects when the rumors she starts about herself get out of hand… This is the third book in A Very Fine Muddle series, which are Regency romances about a very eccentric, unworldly family of debutantes. In my review of the second book I wondered how the author would pull off a heroine whose chief distinguishing feature thus […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: ARC, historical, humor, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency, Romance

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:70 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: ARC, historical, humor, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency, Romance ·
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Bravery is Best

Be Daring, Duke by Kate Archer

September 25, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Rosalind Bennington wants her husband to be a courageous man – but in such a safe location as upper-class Regency London, this means having to orchestrate dangerous situations in which the Duke of Conbatten can prove his daring. This is the second book in the A Very Fine Muddle series, which follows five aristocratic sisters who have been raised by a fanciful hopeless romantic of an aunt and consequently have very fixed ideas on what their future husbands should be like. Learning from her elder […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: ARC, historical, humor, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency, Romance

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:68 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: ARC, historical, humor, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency, Romance ·
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“It’s really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what it’s got. Give a man the world and he’s still pining for the moon.”

Penmarric by Susan Howatch

September 23, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR15 Bingo – Relation”ships”: The many overlapping relationships between the Castallacks and Roslyns, both familial and romantic, drive much of the action of the book forward. When Mark Castallack takes gloomy Penmarric as his home and Janna Roslyn as his wife, he sets a massive family drama into motion. This is one of those sprawling family sagas in which there are a lot of beautiful, dramatic, maladjusted people. The fun of Penmarric though is that it’s also a transposition of the story of Henry II, Eleanor […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: cbr15bingo, drama, family saga, historical, Romance, Susan Howatch

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:67 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: cbr15bingo, drama, family saga, historical, Romance, Susan Howatch ·
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