Tag: Historical

Mazie

Cover of Mazie by Melanie Crowder, which shows a girl in front of the front of a theater, with her name in lights (and the author's on the board where they'd usually name the featured show.)

Mazie, the newest book by Melanie Crowder, is a great story about one young woman’s journey toward Broadway. As a small town girl from Nebraska, Mazie doesn’t know any professional […]

The Kingdom of Back

Cover of Marie Lu's The Kingdom of Back -- a light blue stylized tree on a blue background.

Marie Lu’s The Kingdom of Back surprises with its mix of fantasy and historical fiction. I expected a fantasy, but at first, got nothing but a tale of Mozart’s forgotten […]

The Captain’s Boy

A screenshot of my kindle version of The Captain's Boy by Don Callaway The cover shows a man in revolutionary-era dress with a musket over one shoulder standing in front of a wagon and a log cabin.

The Captain’s Boy is the newest release from one of my critique group members–Don Callaway. This story follows a Pennsylvania farm boy from the period of the American Revolution. When […]

Sarah, Plain and Tall

The cover of Sarah, Plain and Tall (from a screenshot on my computer) shows a woman and a couple of children in old-fashioned clothes walking up a path through flat farmland.

I’ve often heard that Sarah, Plain and Tall is a very good book, but somehow I hadn’t read it before. It’s a deceptively simple story, short, with easy-to-read language. Despite […]