Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! Another new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word! Join me and Kait as we discuss Book #2 in The Sworn Soldier series: What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher.
It's another hit for Kingfisher! Kait and I both enjoyed the What Feasts at Night, though I still liked What Moves the Dead more. We appreciated the continued humor in this second book, as well as the banter between the characters...
Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the Gothic horror novel What Moves the Dead, which is Book #1 in The Sworn Soldier series by T. Kingfisher.
This episode is a love fest for What Moves the Dead. Kait and I both really enjoyed Kingfisher's smart, spooky, and surprisingly funny retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. We discuss...
Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the Gothic horror novel My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen.
Forced to pull strings under the floor for her mama’s séances, Roos discovers that she’s not alone. Another poor girl is there with her. A girl that only Roos can see. A ghost. When Roos’ mama discovers her new talent of connecting with...
Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new book club podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss the The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo.
Leslie is on a new nursing assignment in Spar Creek, a town nestled in the Appalachian mountains. It seems like a quiet place with simple people, but something sinister lurks in its shadows – something that’s beginning to terrorize its god-fearing citizens. Spar Creek...
Hello, Tartlets and Darksiders! A new podcast episode is up on Dark Side of the Word. Join me and Kait as we discuss Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh.
The story is set around one woman in the midst of the (real life) 1951 unsolved mass poisoning of a French village. When we picked up the book, we thought we were in for dark historical fiction with some occult-y vibes -- but, boy, were we wrong. SO WRONG.
Listen as we try our best to piece...
Tracy Chevalier’s novels are absolutely beautiful, and her latest book, A Single Thread, is no exception, with the added distinction that it might be my new favorite title by this author. A Single Thread reminds you how enjoyable it is to lose yourself in another time period. I savored each and every page of this novel set in 1930s England, which is a time period I don't often encounter. So much historical fiction focuses on WWII, but few...
I was giddy with anticipation about The Book of Longings from the moment its publication date was announced, and I'm thrilled to report that author Sue Monk Kidd did not disappoint with her newest historical fiction novel. It's long been debated whether Jesus (yep, as in "Christ Superstar") had a female partner (hello, The Da Vinci Code), and Kidd's novel takes this controversial idea and runs with it, creating Ana, the spirited, devoted, and...
Let me start off by saying that Jerusalem Maiden is going to piss off the feminists among us. Author Talia Carner's main character, Esther, is a woman from an ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism called Haredi...in the early 1900s. So, to say that Esther has limited freedom is putting it mildly. Reading Jerusalem Maiden was extremely eye-opening for me, in many ways. I love historical fiction, but I feel like the market is over-saturated with WW2...
It's not often I yell out "Holy Crap!" while reading historical fiction. But that's exactly what I did smack in the middle of The Exiles. Let's just say the story took a very unexpected turn. Bravo, Christina Baker Kline, for such a bold move. I continually seek out historical fiction novels that doesn't revolve around WW2, and when I saw the ad for The Exiles -- a story about English female convicts and an Aboriginal girl set in 1840s...
Here's a fun fact: I've had this Quick Look Books list of Historical Fiction recommendations planned for, oh,...over a year? Something like that. I've been meaning to post it. Really, I have. Just...something always got in the way. However, since the last few weeks have been pretty history-defining, I figured now's the time to debut this particular book list. To remind us of what people have faced, fought against, and, against all odds, overcome...
