historicalfiction Archives

The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys

by Bubbly Bibbly | Nov 24, 2021 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming promise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel...

Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

by Bubbly Bibbly | Nov 24, 2021 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary: They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach out from the past, forever mindful of the tragic secret that could shatter the family to its foundations. Chronicling five generations of this eccentric...

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 24, 2021 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from...

Dreamland Burning by Jennifer

by Bubbly Bibbly | Mar 14, 2021 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary: When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family’s property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past, the present, and herself.One hundred years earlier, a...