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Review Tag: Historical Fantasy
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Locanisho D’Cithe Fultik A’ino, or Locan A’Shadow as he was known, was also once heralded the deadliest man alive. An assassin who could use the very shadows…
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Miss Emily Gibson, daughter of Sir Hadley Gibson, is missing. In her quarters, there is a dossier of correspondence between Miss Gibson and a woman she believes…
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Rhea Silvia was born a Latin princess, until grief and greed stripped her of her title and saw her transformed into a priestess. She then became a…
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Temujin has usurped his father as Khan of the Ilkhanate, but his work is not done. He is still at war with his father’s brother, Berke, and…
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This was a pleasant surprise. Written from the perspective of Jenny Greenteeth, an ancient fae who lives in an old lake, the story takes us through some…
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Luce Léon is the daughter of an eighteenth-century Breton ship-owner who one day rescues a drowning man from shipwreck. A love triangle ensues between Luce, the rescued…
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This is the last book in North’s ‘Songs of Penelope’ series, telling the previously mostly untold story of Penelope of Ithaca – the long-suffering wife of Odysseus.…
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Evocative. Eerie. Mythic. Down-right weird. I could say all these things, and more, about The Country Under Heaven. What I would say before all that, is it’s…
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Since the slow-burn success of The Song of Achilles, publications of queer and feminist mythical retellings have exploded. The Valkyrie is another of those following this mould.…
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The Sirens is a lushly written novel set across two time periods. We follow two sets of sisters – Jess and Lucy in 2019 and Mary and…
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