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Blog Tour Review: Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs #1) by Dan Jones

September 13, 2022 by chilcottharry 2 Comments

Essex Dogs is a triumphant novel, full of moments, people and ideas that will stick with me for a very long time.

Filed Under: Blog Tour, Fiction, Historical, Historical, Reviews Tagged With: Aries Fiction, Dan Jones, Essex Dogs, Head of Zeus

Review:  Roman Britain’s Pirate King by Simon Elliott

August 26, 2022 by Mada Leave a Comment

Synopsis: In the mid-3rd century AD Roman Britain’s regional fleet, the Classis Britannica, disappeared. It was never to return. Soon the North Sea and English Channel were over-run by Germanic pirates preying upon the east and south coast of Britain, and the continental coast up to the Rhine Delta. The western augustus (senior emperor) Maximian […]

Filed Under: Alt History, Historical, Historical Tagged With: Roman Britain Pirate King, Simon Elliot

Review: The House with the Golden Door (The Wolf Den #2) by Elodie Harper

August 5, 2022 by Cassidee Lanstra Leave a Comment

Synopsis: The life of a courtesan in Pompeii is glamorous yet perilous . . .Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the Wolf Den, the city’s most notorious brothel, but now her survival depends on the affections of her patron: a man she might not know as well as she once thought. At […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Historical, Reviews Tagged With: Elodie Harper, Head of Zeus, Union Sq and Co

Review: Oathbound (Wolf of Kings Book #1) by Richard Cullens

July 30, 2022 by Mada Leave a Comment

Synopsis: First in an action-packed historical series featuring Danish warrior Styrkar, and his journey through the Battle of Hastings and the violence of the Norman Conquest. The champion of a dead king has nothing left to lose… And nothing more to fear.England, 1066. Styrkar the Dane stumbles wounded and delirious from the corpse-strewn battlefield of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Historical, Historical Tagged With: AriesFiction, Oathbound, Richard Cullen

Review: Shield Breaker (The Wolf of King #2) by Richard Cullen

July 13, 2022 by Mada Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Styrkar the warrior sails to dangerous lands in this thrilling new historical adventure from Richard Cullen. The sequel to Oath Bound, longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize 2022. England, 1068: a land gripped in the iron fist of Frankish invaders. But the Conqueror does not sit easily on his fledgling throne. Rebellion is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Heroic Fantasy, Historical, Historical, Mythology, Reviews Tagged With: HeadofZeus, ShieldBreaker

Review: Shadow of the Eagle (The Borderlands #1) by Damion Hunter

June 10, 2022 by Mada Leave a Comment

Synopsis: Will Britain take him in… or mark him as its enemy?’A brilliantly realised world of Imperial ambition and native resistance’ Simon Scarrow’Wonderful, distinct characters … this is a terrific read’ Conn Iggulden Faustus Valerianus is the son of a Roman father and a British mother, a captive sold among the spoils after Claudius’s invasion. Now […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Historical, Historical, Low Fantasy, Mystery, Mythology, Reviews Tagged With: Ancient Rome, Canelo, Damion Hunter, Rome, Shadow of the Eagle

Review: Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

May 3, 2022 by Cassidee Lanstra Leave a Comment

A gorgeous retelling of Kaikeyi.

Filed Under: Fantasy, Historical, Historical, Mythology, Reviews Tagged With: Orbit, Redhook

Book Tour and Review: A Man Named Baskerville by Jim Nelson

April 25, 2022 by Victoria Gross Leave a Comment

Hello, all! Thank you for tuning into my stop on the Escapist Book Tours run of A Man Named Baskerville by Jim Nelson. Below, you’ll find information about the book and my review! I hope you enjoy.

Filed Under: Book Tour, Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Reviews, Self Published Tagged With: A Man Named Baskerville, Escapist Book Tours, Jim Nelson, Self Published

The Wolf Den (Wolf Den Trilogy #1) by Elodie Harper

April 5, 2022 by Cassidee Lanstra Leave a Comment

A gorgeously written historical fiction novel set in a Pompeii brothel, following the life of a cunning and daring enslaved woman named Amara. Enlightening, engaging, and harrowing.

Filed Under: Historical, Mythology Tagged With: Elodie Harper, Union Square and Co

Review: Disappearance of a Scribe by Dana Stabenow (Eye of Isis #2)

February 2, 2022 by Mada Leave a Comment

‘Stabenow brings Alexandria’s Hellenistic period to life… She is now as much at home in ancient Egypt as she is in the Alaskan wilderness’ Publishers Weekly ALEXANDRIA, 47 BC. Cleopatra – seventh of her name, avatar of the goddess Isis, ruler of the Kingdom of Egypt – watches over her city. The war is over, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Historical, Historical, Reviews Tagged With: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Cleopatra, Dana StabeNow, Head of Zeus

A Song of Steel (The Light of the North #1) by J.C. Duncan

January 8, 2022 by Mada Leave a Comment

A roaring Norse saga of war, honour, love and loss. Vikings face Crusaders in an epic battle for the soul of the North. ‘A gripping, well-executed story, with a fun, original premise.’ – Angus Donald‘A Song Of Steel is a rising light of Norse Mythology.’ – Daniel Kelly‘I thoroughly enjoyed the authenticity, the historical underpinnings and the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Historical, Historical, Self Published Tagged With: Bernard Cornwell, Christian Cameron, Giles Krystian, J.C Duncan, Matthew Harffy, Vikings

Lucia by Steven A. McKay

December 8, 2021 by David W Leave a Comment

Synopsis At eight years old, Lucia is torn from the life she knew. Her village burned to the ground and parents murdered by Romans, she is kidnapped, sold and shipped abroad to the Villa Tempestatis in Britannia to serve the young Roman army officer Castus.Faced with a bleak future of decades of servitude to her […]

Filed Under: Alt History, Historical, Historical, Reviews

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