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ClareR (6256 KP) rated The Vaster Wilds in Books

Jul 20, 2024  
The Vaster Wilds
The Vaster Wilds
Lauren Groff | 2023 | Fiction & Poetry
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
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A servant girl flees colonial Jamestown, leaving behind starvation, hardship and something even worse. She has to survive in the wilderness with only her wits and a few possessions.

This book was breathtaking - the whole story is told through the thoughts of a servant girl (in the 3rd person). Yet it doesn’t, at any point, become boring. There’s so much going on: her escape, her methods of survival, the people and animals she nearly meets along the way, the landscape and its contrast to the squalor of “civilised” life left behind in Jamestown. You can feel her desperation to get away, he wonder at what she sees and her drive to survive.

Honestly, I can’t recommend it enough.
  
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Merissa (14224 KP) created a post

Sep 22, 2025  
⚖️ “In a city divided by prejudice and power, one Sicilian immigrant must fight to survive amid corruption, violence, and the deadliest lynching in U.S. history.”

Based on true events, S. R. Perricone’s Cobblestones – A New Orleans Tragedy is a gripping tale of injustice, survival, and the fight for dignity in a city torn apart by fear and hate.

📖 Read the excerpt here as part of the #BlogTour with #TheCoffeePotBookClub: 👉 https://archaeolibrarian.wixsite.com/website/post/excerpt-cobblestones-a-new-orleans-tragedy-by-s-r-perricone

💬 Historical fiction often reveals truths that history books leave out—what’s the most powerful real-life event you’ve discovered through a novel?

#HistoricalFiction #Crime #TrueEvents
      
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Merissa (14224 KP) created a post

Oct 16, 2025  
☢️ In the shadow of the atomic age, one mother dares to challenge the government’s deadly secrets to save her child—and countless others.

Trisha T. Pritikin’s Then Came The Summer Snow blends historical fiction, dark humour, and atomic-era feminism in a powerful story of courage, truth, and maternal love against impossible odds.

📖 Read the fascinating Guest Post where the author shares how her personal experiences with the medical world influenced the story as part of the #BlogTour with #TheCoffeePotBookClub:
👉 https://archaeolibrarian.wixsite.com/website/post/guest-post-then-came-the-summer-snow-by-trisha-t-pritikin

💬 Do you enjoy historical fiction inspired by real struggles for justice and survival?

#HistoricalFiction #AtomicFeminism #DarkHumour #TheCoffeePotBookClub #BlogTour
      
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David McK (3938 KP) rated Hornblower in the West Indies (Hornblower #10) in Books

Aug 19, 2023  
Hornblower in the West Indies (Hornblower #10)
Hornblower in the West Indies (Hornblower #10)
C.S. Forester | 1957
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Really a collection of five short(ish) stories rather than a novel in its own right, this is chronologically the last in the Hornblower series, published the 10th of 11.

The Napoleonic wars are now over, with Hornblower dispatched to - you guessed it! - the West Indies in charge of a much reduced squadron, where he finds himself embroiled (yet again) in various and sundry adventures, all 'topped off' by his survival of a Hurricane after his appointment is over.

I'd read elsewhere that this could be described as a coda to the main Hornblower saga, and that seems a fair enough comparison to me: basically, an extra piece added on to the end of a tale!
  
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Merissa (14224 KP) created a post

Oct 13, 2026  
"Hemmed in by Catholic enemies, internal strife, and the relentless pressure to marry, Elizabeth Tudor must outmanoeuvre an entire world determined to decide her fate for her."

👑✨ An excerpt from WHAT LOVE E'ER MEANT (REGINA #2) by JANET WERTMAN is live on the blog today! This richly imagined work of historical and biographical fiction places Elizabeth I at the centre of a political storm she was born to weather, in a story of power, survival, and a queen who refused to be anyone's pawn. 💫🌿

Head over to the blog to read the excerpt!

#HistoricalFiction #BiographicalFiction

https://archaeolibrarian.wixsite.com/website/post/what-love-e-er-meant-regina-2-by-janet-wertman
      
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