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ClareR (6037 KP) rated A Little Trickerie in Books

Nov 23, 2025  
A Little Trickerie
A Little Trickerie
Rosanna Pike | 2024 | Fiction & Poetry
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Was this on the Women’s Prize 2025 short list? Well if it wasn’t, it should have been. Top tier historical fiction, in my opinion. There’s a real sense of time and place – medieval times weren’t nice or easy to live in. Born a vagabond, orphaned and left to fend for herself, Tibb has an uncanny ability to fall in with people who will (largely) help her. Namely Ivo, who she meets shortly after the death of her mother, and some of the people in a travelling group of minstrels. Tibb is a truly wonderful character: she’s bold, adventurous and always makes the best of what she has. She hasn’t let the world turn her into a bitter, hateful person, and let’s just say that the world has had plenty of opportunities to do that! The narrative voice is so different from what I’ve read/ listened to before. Just perfect!
  
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ArecRain (8 KP) rated His Wicked Lady in Books

Jan 18, 2018  
HW
His Wicked Lady
Sharon Drane
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
This is definitely a novel you should not base on its cover. The cover makes it look medieval, the description makes it sound regency, but the actual story has a completely different than both of those.

There were a lot of pros and cons for me in this book. On one hand, I liked the strong females leads and the author tackling the subject domestic abuse. However, it felt awkward in unrealistic for the time frame that the author placed the story in. I also felt the dialogue was a bit out of place. Sometimes, authors modernize dialogue so it is more readable for the readers. I am not sure if that’s what she was doing, but it didn’t detract too much from the story. In fact, I quite enjoyed the lead couple’s bantering for the most part.

Overall, I would say I enjoyed the novel. It had some unrealistic factors that grated against my nerves, but I was invested in the HEA.