Category: historical fiction

  • Review of “Warlock”

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    Ancient Egypt, a world full of magic and a little bit of wonder. A place we return to in Warlock, the second book in the Ancient Egypt series by Wilbur Smith. It opens a few decades after the end of the previous book when Taita is training Nefer, the grandson of Lostris and son of…

  • Review of “The Watchmaker of Filigree Street”

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    I did not know that a watch could save a life but in The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley it does just that. Nathaniel Steepleton is a lowly telegraphist for the British Government in the 1880’s. One day he comes home to his rented room and finds a random pocket watch on a…

  • Review of “River God”

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    Time to travel back in time. River God is the first book in the Ancient Egypt series by Wilbur Smith and it starts the story of Taita. Taita is a slave and a eunuch that serves a rather brutal noble. The time frame is approximately 4,000 years ago. It opens during the festival of Osiris…

  • Review of “One Thousand White Women”

    Before I start discussing today’s book, I have a bit of a funny story to tell. It first came to my attention when my mom mentioned it a while back, so when I saw it at the library I decided to check it out thinking that if my mom is mentioning it then it is…

  • Review of “White Mulberry”

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    White Mulberry is the debut novel of Rosa Kwon Easton. It tells the story of Miyoung, a young Korean woman born in the 1920’s who lived under Japanese occupation. Starting when she was a child it covers her move to adulthood and the challenges she faces in doing so. At the same time it also…

  • Review of “The Evening and The Morning”

    This next book is actually a prequel to a series I’ve already discussed with my previous reviews of A Column Of Fire and The Armor of Light. In between writing these two books the author, Ken Follett, traveled further back and wrote The Evening and The Morning which serves as a prequel to the entire…

  • Review of “The Armor of Light”

    I have previously talked about this particular author’s ability to create an incredibly detailed world. Having read another of the books in the Kingsbridge series I can definitively say that Ken Follett continues in the next book. The Armor of Light is the fourth book, not counting the prequel, in the series that are based…

  • Review of “A Column of Fire”

    If you ever wanted to read an epic of world-building that is on the same scale as anything by Tolkien than I know the perfect book. A Column of Fire is the third book in the wildly popular Kingsbridge series by celebrated author Ken Follett. It tells the story of Ned Willard and Margery Fitzgerald,…