Tag: Historical Fiction

Book Review: Wench

August 23, 2011 Whitney Review 4 Comments
Book Review: Wench

Lizzie, our lead protagonist visits the camp with her master Drayle and looks at this time as a mini-vacation to spend with her friends, Sweet, Reenie and Mawu. Wench was an interesting concept but went absolutely nowhere.  The bases of the plot was the girls doing some sort of chore, followed by anal sex and […]

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Book Review: The Kitchen Boy

June 10, 2011 Whitney Review 4 Comments
Book Review: The Kitchen Boy

From the beginning I knew there was a secret even deeper repressed than just the fall of the Romanovs.  His dear May had a vast collection of Fabergé  eggs an item Alexandra Fyodorovna, Tsarina collected.  The couple’s only child, a son had hemophilia, a disorder that the Tsarevich  Alexei Nikolaevich had.  And what happened to […]

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Review: Exit The Actress

January 29, 2011 Whitney Review 6 Comments
Review: Exit The Actress

Words can not describe  Priya Parmar’s novel Exit The Actress, it is so rich and vibrant that I felt like I was actually in the audience watching Nell perform and wanted to reach out for one of her oranges.  While reading Nell’s journal entries I wanted to be her friend, with her tell it like […]

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Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin

August 26, 2010 Whitney Review 9 Comments
Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin

“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and having nothing to do…” Alice Liddell’s story does not begin on this “golden afternoon” but this particular day defines her as “Alice”. Melanie Benjamin has brought The real Alice’s life to light beautifully. Mr. Liddell is the Dean of […]

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No Angel by Penny Vincenzi

February 14, 2010 Whitney Review 1 Comment
No Angel by Penny Vincenzi

Impressions While Reading No Angel by Penny Vincenzi is a a page turner and what I felt to be an accurate account of that time of history.  Penny Vincenzi references the woman’s suffrage movement,  medicine, social affairs and the after effects of war.  There are very few cliff-hanger at the end of No Angel as most […]

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Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay

January 23, 2010 Whitney Review 0 Comments
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay

First Impressions Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay was incredibly sad and no matter how fictional tears your heart. Impressions While Reading First, I thought Tatiana de Rosnay did a good job describing the backdrop of that time in history. She excelled in getting the point across of these horrid times. Through Julia, we get […]

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