4.5 Stars – Damn Close to Perfection Plot Summary: The first book of a graphic novel trilogy about Berlin, Germany in 1928. This novel details the lives of ordinary citizens from a cross-section of German society in the months leading up to Hitler’s rise to power. Today’s review is over at TJ’s blog, Dreams & [...]
Posts Tagged ‘historical fiction’
Review: “Berlin: City of Stones” by Jason Lutes 2000
Posted: May 18, 2010 by Rebecca @ Dirty Sexy Books in 4.5 Stars - Damn Close to Perfection, ReviewTags: graphic novel, historical fiction
Review: “Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1: The Trial of Sherlock Holmes” by Leah Moore, John Reppion, Aaron Campell 2009
Posted: May 1, 2010 by Rebecca @ Dirty Sexy Books in 4 Stars - Brain Candy on a Lazy Afternoon, ReviewTags: graphic novel, historical fiction
4 Stars – Brain Candy for a Lazy Afternoon Plot Summary: First a factory is bombed, and then a man’s life is threatened. Scotland Yard and Sherlock Holmes both sit in the intended victim’s house on the evening of his supposed murder, and most shocking of all, Holmes himself is accused of the murder when [...]
Review: “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov 1995
Posted: April 19, 2010 by Rebecca @ Dirty Sexy Books in 3 Stars - Like a Date With a "Nice" Guy, ReviewTags: fantasy, historical fiction
3 Stars – Like a Date With a “Nice” Guy Plot Summary: The devil visits Moscow sometime in the springtime of the 1930s and he wreaks havoc. His traveling companions include a talking black cat named Behemoth, a comely witch who never wears clothes, and a scruffy translator who wears a cracked pince-nez. Most of [...]
Review: “Johnny Porno” by Charlie Stella 2010
Posted: April 12, 2010 by Rebecca @ Dirty Sexy Books in 4 Stars - Brain Candy on a Lazy Afternoon, ReviewTags: crime, historical fiction
4 Stars – Brain Candy for a Lazy Afternoon Plot Summary: John Albano is feeling the heat from all sides during the summer of 1973 in New York City. Cut from his Union job for a scuffle with the foreman, John is now scrambling to pay rent, bills, and child support to his poison pill [...]
Review: “The Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett 1930
Posted: March 21, 2010 by Rebecca @ Dirty Sexy Books in 5 Stars - It Kept Me Up All Night!, ReviewTags: crime, historical fiction, mystery, noir
5 Stars – It Kept Me Up All Night! Plot Summary: San Francisco private detective Samuel Spade is visited by a gorgeous redhead who needs to have a man tailed. When his partner is killed on the job, Spade becomes the prime suspect, and he must solve the case or take the fall. Fortunately Spade [...]
Review: “The Women of Nell Gwynne’s” by Kage Baker 2009
Posted: March 20, 2010 by Rebecca @ Dirty Sexy Books in 3 Stars - Like a Date With a "Nice" Guy, ReviewTags: historical fiction, novella, steampunk
3 Stars – Like a Date With a “Nice” Guy Plot Summary: The daughter of a British officer grows up in India, and when tragedy erases her status in society, she returns to London and becomes a high-class streetwalker named Lady Beatrice. She is recruited into an exclusive brothel known as Nell Gwynne’s, but her [...]
Review: “To Say Nothing of the Dog” by Connie Willis 1997
Posted: January 28, 2010 by Rebecca @ Dirty Sexy Books in 1 Star - I Couldn't Even Finish It, ReviewTags: historical fiction, time travel
1 Star – I Couldn’t Even Finish It Plot Summary: A rich woman with an obsession could be the downfall of civilization. In 2057, the obnoxious Lady Schrapnel uses time-travel to send dozens of operatives back in time to research Coventry Cathedral, which was destroyed by the Nazi’s during WWII, because she’s going to rebuild [...]
Review: “New Blood” by Gail Dayton 2009
Posted: January 27, 2010 by Rebecca @ Dirty Sexy Books in 4 Stars - Brain Candy on a Lazy Afternoon, ReviewTags: historical fiction, paranormal romance, steampunk
4 Stars – Brain Candy for a Lazy Afternoon Plot Summary: Magic is alive and acknowledged in the 19th century, but in Amanusa’s little back corner of Austria it’s illegal for women to practice magic. When a strange Englishman appears at her cottage and talks of her being a blood sorceress, Amanusa recoils from the [...]
Review: “Alice I Have Been” by Melanie Benjamin 2010
Posted: December 16, 2009 by Rebecca @ Dirty Sexy Books in 5 Stars - It Kept Me Up All Night!, ReviewTags: historical fiction
5 Stars – It Kept Me Up All Night! Plot Summary: The story we all know as “Alice in Wonderland” was inspired by a real little girl, Alice Liddell, and this novel tells her story in a blend of fact and fiction. The real Alice was an unflappable, forthright child who grew up in pampered [...]
Review: “Rainwater” by Sandra Brown 2009
Posted: December 2, 2009 by Rebecca @ Dirty Sexy Books in 5 Stars - It Kept Me Up All Night!, ReviewTags: crime, historical fiction, romance
5 Stars – It Kept Me Up All Night! Plot Summary: In the midst of the Great Depression when Texas was as dry as a bone, Ella Barron runs a boarding house and looks after her 10 year-old son Solly. When the town doctor brings over a prospective boarder, David Rainwater, Ella reluctantly agrees to [...]