History from a Woman's Perspective- A Book Blog

27 Days to Midnight by Kristine Kruppa Genre: YA, Steampunk, Adventure Release date: May 3rd 2016 Giant Squid Books Source: This book was given to me by YA Bound Books Tours in exchange for an honest review. Summary:  Everyone in Dahlia's world knows when they're going to die. Except her.       Her father has never shown her the pocket watch counting down the days she has left to live. When he sacrifices himself to save her from her scheduled death, Dahlia abandons her comfortable home and sets off after his murderer to uncover the secrets her father died top rotect...and the time research that could bring him back to life.       Then she meets Farren Reed. She should hate him. He’s an enemy soldier, a cowardly deserter, and the most insufferable man Dahlia’s ever met. Still, she needs all the help she can get, and Farren is the only chance she has to find the man who murdered her father. But Farren has only twenty-seven days left on...

Return Once More by Trisha Leigh  (The Historians #1) Published by: Bloomsbury Spark Publication date: September 29th 2015 Genres: Science Fiction, Time-Travel, Young Adult Source: This book was given to me by Xpresso Book Tours in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis:      If you could learn the identity of your one true love—even though you will never meet— would you?      Years have passed since refugees from a ruined earth took to space, eventually settling a new system of planets. Science has not only made the leaps necessary to allow time travel, but the process engineered a strange side effect—predicting your one true love.      If you could save your one true love from an untimely death, would you be able to resist?      Sixteen-year-old Kaia Vespasian is an apprentice to the Historians—a group charged with using time travel to document the triumphs and failures of the past—and she can’t resist a pee...

Lumière by Jacqueline E. Garlick  (The Illumination Paradox #1) Publication date: December 12th 2013 Genres: Steampunk, Young Adult Source: This book was given to me by Xpresso Book Tours in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis:  Even in a land of eternal twilight, secrets can’t stay hidden forever.      Seventeen-year-old Eyelet Elsworth is no stranger to living in the dark. She’s hidden her secret affliction all of her life—a life that would be in danger if superstitious townspeople ever guessed the truth. After her mother is accused and executed for a crime that she didn’t commit, the now-orphaned Eyelet has no choice but to track down the machine—her last hope for a cure. But Eyelet’s late father’s most prized invention, the Illuminator, has been missing since the day of the mysterious flash—a day that saw the sun wiped out over Brethren forever.      Alone and on the run, she finds the Illuminator—only to witness a young man haul...

Aurelia (Roma Nova, #4) by Alison Morton Publication Date: May 5, 2015 SilverWood Books Paperback & eBook; 270 Pages Genre: Alternative Historical Fiction Source: This book was given to me by Historical Fiction Virtual Book tours in exchange for an honest review.                   Synopsis:  Late 1960s Roma Nova, the last Roman colony that has survived into the 21st century. Aurelia Mitela is alone – her partner gone, her child sickly and her mother dead. Forced in her mid-twenties to give up her beloved career as a Praetorian officer, she is struggling to manage an extended family tribe, businesses and senatorial political life.      But her country needs her unique skills. Somebody is smuggling silver – Roma Nova’s lifeblood – on an industrial scale. Sent to Berlin to investigate, she encounters the mysterious and attractive Miklós, a suspected smuggler, and Caius Tellus, a Roma Novan she has despi...

Perfiditas (Book #2 of the Roma Nova Series) Author: Alison Morton Genre: Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller Publisher: Silverwoods Books Release Date: 2013 Pages: 288 Source: This book was given to me for the Historical Fiction Virtual Tours Book Tour      My Review: Perifditas is an alternate history and science fiction novel. It is set in a country, named Roma Nova that is ruled and dominated by women. Roma Nova was created in 395 AD when Emperor Theodosius’s final decree banned all pagan religions. Romans, who are still loyal to the old religions and sought refuge, trekked out of Italy and into a country that is similar to Slovenia. Over time, women began to rule over Roma Nova and also became a matrilineal society, while the men defended the country.  At the center of this novel, is Carina Mitela, who is Captain of the Special Forces. Carina must prevent a conspiracy who that not only threatens her country, bu...