Category Archives: historical fiction

#TBR Challenge – Festive: Coming Home for Christmas by Carla Kelly

Posted on December 20, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Coming Home for Christmas by Carla Kelly is slightly different from the other TBR books I’ve read this year; I actually started it at some point, in either 2020 or 2021, and then just…didn’t finish it, possibly because it’s a … Continue reading →

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My April Reading Log

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles is a male/male historical romance set in Regency England in Romney Marsh in Kent, an area known for its culture of smuggling. Gareth Inglis, raised by his distant uncle and … Continue reading →

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#TBRChallenge – Getaway: A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson

Posted on February 15, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson is, I believe, the last of her adult novels that I had left to read. My profound thanks for this journey go to Kelly Link, who recommended the author to me roughly two … Continue reading →

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My January Reading Log

Posted on February 11, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Aftermath: Tides Turning (Clorinda Cathcart’s Circle Book 18) by L. A. Hall started my year off right with a check-in on old friends. I loved how the younger generation was taking up the slack to subtly change things for … Continue reading →

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My April Reading Log

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Can’t Find My Way Home by Gwynne Garfinkle is a ghost story that’s also a period piece. Vividly set in mid-1970s New York City, it features Joanna Bergman, a young actress in a soap opera who’s developing an intense … Continue reading →

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My March Reading Log

Posted on April 8, 2022 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Rescue Operations: Changes of Life by L.A. Hall, sixteenth in the Clorinda Cathcart’s Circle series, includes the return of Josh Ferraby to England amidst a complex plot, involving a vast number of people, to free a woman from an … Continue reading →

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My January Reading Log

Posted on February 11, 2022 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton is a bitingly satirical alternate Victorian England in which women have learned to make their houses fly, and of course have used this ability to become pirates, and also spend … Continue reading →

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#TBRChallenge – Festive: Cotillion by Georgette Heyer

Posted on December 15, 2021 by Victoria Janssen

It’s true! I’ve never read Cotillion by Georgette Heyer! Until now. This book was published in 1953, so I felt free to include spoilers in this post. I found the novel charming, with typical Heyer character types, plotlines, and shenanigans, … Continue reading →

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My November Reading Log

Posted on December 10, 2021 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone is space opera on a grand scale with a seemingly all-powerful Empress, a giant pirate with fur and a tail, space monks, massive fleets of spaceships and the pilots who can merge with … Continue reading →

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My October Reading Log

Posted on November 5, 2021 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Scandal in Babylon by Barbara Hambly is a reworking of her fantasy novel Bride of the Rat God as a straightforward historical mystery set in 1920s Hollywood. I was always sorry there weren’t sequels to Bride of the Rat … Continue reading →

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