Historical Fiction

Book Review: A GOOD AMERICAN by Alex George

Posted by Hallie Sawyer on Apr 6, 2012 in Book Reviews, Books, Historical Fiction | 0 comments

A Good American by Alex George, 387 pgs., published by Amy Einhorn/Putnam Books. Frederick and Jette are two German youth in love in early 20th century. Things happen, ahem, and they find themselves on the outs with Jette’s mother. Worried about what drastic measures her mother might take for the sake of the family’s reputation, Jette urges Frederick to go to America where they can start a new life. They end up making their way into America through New Orleans rather than through New York, which sets the course of their lives forever.As they haphazardly plant their family roots in...

Book Review: LETTERS FROM HOME by Kristina McMorris

Posted by Hallie Sawyer on Dec 13, 2011 in Book Reviews, Historical Fiction | 6 comments

LETTERS FROM HOME*, published in March 2011 by Kensington Books, is set in 1944 Chicago. The story begins with three roommates, Liz, Betty, and Julia, as women on the cusp of their adult lives. Julia is waiting for her fiancé to return from the war, Liz is getting ready to marry her childhood sweetheart, and Betty has her sights set on joining the USO as a singer. However, things in life don’t always happen according to plan. Liz agrees to pen a letter for Betty to a young serviceman, Morgan McClain, whom they both had met at the USO dance the night before the men shipped off for...

Book Review: The Exile of Sara Stevenson

Posted by Hallie Sawyer on Nov 1, 2011 in Book Reviews, Historical Fiction | 0 comments

Find it in your local bookstore here! Och, there’s naethin’ sae grand as young love, forbye! ‘Tis a pity yours need be shoved down a mine shaft, concealed in a subterranean warren for only the creatures of the night to see, and not allowed to shine forth like one of your father’s great lights. Perhaps we’d all benefit from such a glow as the one hidden beneath the wan skin o’ your face. This 400 page historical fiction debut novel was published in July of 2010 by Ballantine Books. It is set in 1815 Scotland and is cloaked with mystery, romance, and...

Book Review-Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

Posted by Hallie Sawyer on Sep 8, 2011 in Book Reviews, Historical Fiction | 1 comment

My review was posted at The Bookworm Society a couple of weeks ago. Click here to check it out… Shop Indie bookstores and support your local community!

Book Review: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

Posted by Hallie Sawyer on Aug 11, 2011 in Book Reviews, Books, Historical Fiction | 3 comments

The sun had risen, and the camp was going about its business, but it was muffled quiet and safe inside the tipi, the gentle morning sunlight filtering softly through the buffalo skins; the fire was warm and took the early-morning chill off the air, the tent pungent with the mingled scents of human beings and smoke and coffee and meat cooking, the smell of animal hides and earth. All these no longer seemed to me to make for an offensive ordor, but rather an oddly comforting one–the smells of home. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, by Jim Fergus, was published in 1998...