Merissa (14064 KP) rated Death & Maia in Books
Jun 13, 2025
While I enjoyed the story, the writing style wasn't for me. There were parts that just didn't make any sense, and to be fair, I wasn't in a state of mind where I could dive deeper.
Some people will love this book, but it wasn't for me. Sorry!
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Merissa
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Jun 13, 2025
The Long Shadow of Murder (Will Rees/Shaker Series)
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When the body of a visitor is found in the woods by the local Shaker community, suspicion...
Historical Murder Mystery
ClareR (6253 KP) rated The Queen of Fives in Books
Sep 30, 2025 (Updated Sep 30, 2025)
I loved this: it’s pacey, rip-roaring, the historical detail is on point and the story itself is unputdownable. The characters were fascinating, and I was cheering from the sidelines for Quinn, the Queen of Fives, even though her goal is to rip off the landed gentry (not such a bad thing, surely?!). The moral greyness of this is at peak level!
The narrator, Polly Edsel, is perfect and brings the cast of characters to life.
There’s dishonesty, family honour, independent strong women, peril, love, lies and fraud.
Highly recommended!
The Bookshop of Secrets
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In a bookshop nestled in the sprawling streets of Lisbon, a shopkeeper leads a double life… ...
Historical World War II Romance Women's Fiction
Lalji's Nairobi
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British Gujarat, 1905. Despairing of the social injustices and crippling taxes under the British...
Historical Fiction Africa
The Rune Stone (Dr DuLac series #3)
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When Dr Viv DuLac, medievalist and academic, finds a mysterious runic inscription on a Rune Stone in...
Historical Fantasy Time Travel Time Slip Romance Mystery
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Days of Light
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Easter Sunday, 1938. Ivy is nineteen and ready for her life to finally begin. In the idyllic Sussex...
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A Theory in Vienna
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‘I bring to light a truth, which was unknown for many centuries with direful results for the human...
Historical Fiction
Close Your Eyes: A Fairy Tale
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Set in early 1400s Europe, Close Your Eyes is a sincere, yet light-hearted and lustful, ode to love....
Historical Fiction