Welcome to my book tour stop for The Filling Station by Vanessa Miller, hosted by Hear Our Voices Book Tours. Vanessa Miller’s latest novel, The Filling Station is historical fiction that tells the story of two sisters who survived the massacre and how they try to pick up the pieces of their lives left in […]
Welcome to my tour stop for The American Queen by Vanessa Miller Book Tour hosted by Hear Our Voices Book Tours. Hidden History If you are looking for historical fiction that is also Christian-centered, you will enjoy The American Queen. It captures a piece of history that most people probably do not know about. It […]
Review: Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay Thank you to @penguinteen for the gifted copy and for @librofm for the ALC. I have been looking forward to Randy Ribay’s book, Everything We Never Had. I’m so glad I got the opportunity to read it early! Everything We Never Had is definitely a book that […]
Arc Review: To the Bone by Alena Bruzas Pub Date: Sept. 10, 2024 If you are into historical fiction and horror, then add To the Bone by Alena Bruzas to your spooky season TBR pile. A colonial tale told from the perspective of a teenage indentured servant girl. Readers get the experience of the horrors […]
The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices From the Donner Party by Allan Wolf So I was definitely a history nerd as a kid and I still am one as an adult. My favorite fictional genre is Historical Fiction and my second favorite overall genre is nonfiction. I am the one who watched all of […]
Where are all my historical fiction girlies? Romance and Black Society in early 20th Century Chicago is an awesome combination in The Davenports by Krystal Marquis. This is the representation I wish I had in novels growing up since historical fiction was and is my main jam. As a young Black girl I craved a […]
As an English teacher, I could not resist checking out Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese. My first encounter with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlett Letter was as a high school English student. While my teacher hammered away at all of the symbolism in the book, I was really wondering about how Hester was surviving around all […]
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander is the kind of historical novel that those of us who are adults now deserved when we were in school. This book embraces and emphasizes the narrative that the history of Black people in the diaspora did not begin in the countries where they were enslaved. Our […]
I’ve known about the graphic novel series Maus for a long time. But I had never read it until now. The duology has gotten a lot of attention in the past few months because of the terrible book banning that is going on around the country. I decided that it was time for me to […]
I’m not usually into reading thrillers because it sets my anxiety levels off too much. But when I began reading I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys, I thought I was reading straight historical fiction. Correction! I was reading a historical thriller. The cherry on top was that Ruta Sepetys writes about little-known history, so […]