History from a Woman's Perspective- A Book Blog

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the SHATTERED MIDNIGHT by Dhonielle Clayton Blog Tour hosted by  Rockstar Book Tours . Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!   About The Book: Title:   SHATTERED MIDNIGHT (The Mirror #2) Author:  Dhonielle Clayton Pub. Date:  January 18, 2022 Publisher:  Disney-Hyperion Formats:  Hardcover, eBook, audiobook Genre: YA, Historical Fiction, Fantasy Pages:  304 Source: This book was given to me by Rockstar Book Tours in exchange for an honest review. Find it:   Goodreads ,  Amazon , Kindle ,   Audible ,  B&N ,  iBooks , Kobo ,  TBD , Bookshop.org Synopsis : The Mirror: Shattered Midnight is the second novel in the innovative four-book fairy-tale series written by Julie C. Dao, Dhonielle Clayton, J.C. Cervantes, and L. L. McKinney, following one family over several generations, and the curse that plagues it.      Zora Broussard has...

Alina: A Song For the Telling by Malve von Hassell August 27, 2020 BHC Press Hardcover, Paperback, & eBook Genre: Young Adult/Historical/Medieval Synopsis:  You should be grateful, my girl. You have no dowry, and I am doing everything I can to get you settled. You are hardly any man's dream."     Alina's brother, Milos, pulled his face into a perfect copy of Aunt Marci's sour expression, primly pursing his mouth. He had got her querulous tone just right.     I pinched my lips together, trying not to laugh. But it was true; Aunt Marci had already introduced me to several suitors. So far I had managed to decline their suits politely.     Maybe Alina's aunt was right. How could she possibly hope to become a musician, a trobairitz, as impoverished as she was and without the status of a good marriage?       But fourteen-year-old Alina refuses to accept the oppressing life her strict aunt wan...

The Game of Hope by Sandra Gulland Publication Date: June 26, 2018 Viking Books for Young Readers Hardcover & eBook; 384 Pages Genre: YA/Historical Fiction Source: This book was given to me by Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: For Napoleon’s stepdaughter, nothing is simple — especially love.      Paris, 1798. Hortense de Beauharnais is engrossed in her studies at a boarding school for aristocratic girls, most of whom suffered tragic losses during the tumultuous days of the French Revolution. She loves to play and compose music, read and paint, and daydream about Christophe, her brother’s dashing fellow officer. But Hortense is not an ordinary girl. Her beautiful, charming mother Josephine has married Napoleon Bonaparte, soon to become the most powerful man in France, but viewed by Hortense as a coarse, unworthy successor to her elegant father, who was guillotined during the Terror. ...

Ecstasy Author: Mary Sharratt Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Release Date: April 10, 2018 Pages: 405 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: In the glittering hotbed of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Vienna, one woman’s life would define and defy an era.      Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and proposed only a few weeks later. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius abandoned all reason to pursue her. Poet and novelist Franz Werfel described her as “one of the very few magical women that exist.” But who was this woman who brought these most eminent of men to their knees? In Ecstasy, Mary Sharratt finally gives one of the most controversial and complex women of her time the center stage.       Coming of age in the midst of a creative and cultural whirlwind, young, beautiful Alma Schindler yearns to make her mark as a composer. A bra...

The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters #2) Author: Lucinda Riley Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance Publisher: Atria Books Release Date: 2016 Pages: 512 Source: My State Public Library Synopsis: A sweeping and spellbinding love story spanning the warm waters of the Mediterranean to the cold, clear skies of Norway—the second in an epic new series of novels by #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley.      Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father—an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt—has left each of them a tantalizing clue to their true heritage.      But the timing couldn’t be worse: Ally had only recently fallen into a new and deeply passionate love affair, but with her life now turned upside down, sh...