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Book Reviews

historical fiction

The Benevolent Violence of Eugenics | The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann

July 6, 2022

A Victorian Hellscape | The Wages of Sin by Kaite Welsh

June 27, 2022

Poor Craft and Execution | Gold Mountain by Betty G. Yee

February 19, 2022

Untold Tales of Ancient Sex Workers | The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper

February 6, 2022

Unrealized Potential | Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

November 10, 2021

Overwrought, overblown | The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste

April 17, 2021

A Disappointing Finale | The Steel Beneath the Silk by Patricia Bracewell

January 21, 2021

Druids! Romans! Bog Dwellers! | Daughter of Black Lake by Cathy Marie Buchanan

January 4, 2021

Tragedy Porn for Historical Readers | Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie

October 4, 2020

Disappointing & Absurd | The Widow of Pale Harbor by Hester Fox

September 23, 2020

Hope During Reconstruction | Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

August 19, 2020

Not Your Grandma’s Western | How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang

August 2, 2020

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