Review: Cnut: Rise of a Viking Warrior by Kyle Miller ★★★★
Review: The Cats of Rekem by C. L. Francisco ★★★★
This is the third book in the Yeshua’s Cats series and it opens with the characters from A Cat Out of Egypt twenty-five years later. In the Nabataean city of Rekem there’s religious and political discord. Tikos, Zaidan, their daughter Hinat, and their faithful cats are placed in a dangerous situation when Yeshua and Mari appear before and after the Resurrection. Yeshua makes a request: help save Paul of Tarsus. Can they and what will the consequences […]
Review: Noble Warrior by Becca Ketelsleger ★★★★
Noble Warrior, by Becca Ketelsleger, presents a different take on the legend of the Knights of the Round Table.
When Aceline Grosipan’s father is arrested, the young woman masquerades as a knight in order to set her father free. Against all odds, she enters the masculine world and finds a new home serving the king who imprisoned her father. Over the years, she goes to war, experiences loss and heartbreak. She also discovers what it means to be brave and noble.
The author loosely bases her story around the legendary Knights of the Round Table. Fans of the old-fashioned […]
Review: Eterlimus by Aziz Hamza
★★★★½ 
Eterlimus, by Aziz Hamza, is a fast-moving and riveting historical fiction novel set in the 500s BC.
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus became the seventh King of the Roman Kingdom after assassinating King Servius Tullius. Tarquinius didn’t stop there. He also took care of his enemies and those loyal to the previous king to cement his rule. During Tarquinius’ reign the people suffered. Injustice and corruption were rampant. The time was ripe for a revolution and the rape of Lucretia, a noble woman, lit the spark. This novel relates how Eterlimus, an owner of a brothel, played a vital role […]
Review: William the Conqueror vs King Harold by Jesse Lee Vint
★★★★½ 
William the Conqueror vs King Harold, by Jesse Lee Vint, according to the blurb is “The story that has never been told!”
In 1066, Halley’s Comet made an appearance. The same year, in England, three undefeated warrior kings who believed they had a legitimate claim to the crown clashed. Quitting wasn’t in their vocabulary so when events sent them on a collision course it made the perfect scenario for exciting history. Even though Normandy’s William and England’s Harold Godwinson, crowned King Harold II in January of 1066, were friends before the fateful events, the lure of being crowned […]
Review: Hattie’s Place by Katherine P. Stillerman ★★★★★
One week before her graduation from Greenville Female College, Hattie Robinson receives a disturbing letter from her fiancé Will Kendrick. In the letter, Will breaks off their engagement citing a mysterious complication.
Hattie is devastated. She decides to take a position as an elementary school teacher in Calhoun, South Carolina. She boards with a prominent attorney and his wife and their four sons.
In Calhoun, Hattie tries to rebuild her life and to make a new place for herself.
All too […]
Review: Lily’s Story by Don Gutteridge ★★★★★
Lily, born in the backwoods of Lambton County, Ontario, enters the world in 1840. Frontier living isn’t for the weak. But life has much more in store for Lily. During her long lifetime she witnesses the rise of railroad rivalries, the discovery of oil at Petrolia, the Prince of Wales’ grand tour in 1860, the Underground Railroad sending liberated slaves to Canada, the Riel Rebellions, the birth of a nation, World War I, and the influenza pandemic. Over the decades, she marries […]
Review: Major Frog by J. Albert Griffiths ★★★★
Charlie Albright had a short stint in the air force when he was younger. He’s older now, but is he wiser? He signs on to an Army contract and ends up in Vietnam during the war.
Two North Vietnamese sisters are secretly employed by the enemy. Both enter Charlie’s life and entangle the American into their nefarious schemes.
Charlie, a good guy who understands the shades of gray, knows the Army CID and local police are watching. That doesn’t stop him from entering dangerous territory […]