bookshelves: published-2016, mystery-thriller, net-galley, historical-fiction, britain-ireland, autumn-2015, hist-myst, eire-co-clare, e-book, newtome-author, published-1731, paganism, superstitions, all-tell-no-show Read from November 09 to 29, 2015 Description: When a woman’s body is discover...
Interesting but very light. Kids dealing with parents dying in Ireland during the famine, somewhat too easy and glosses over some of the nastiness.
It's 1509, Turlough and Mara have set a date for their wedding and Turlough is fixing up a castle for the two of them to live in. When Mara attends the funeral of a local well-respected priest When people come out of the funeral they find a local merchant Sorley, dead from bee stings. Apparently...
I enjoyed this second installment in the Burren series about a female Brehon, or judge, Mara. This time there are a cascade of murders, one seemingly leading from another. When the murderer doesn't admit to his killing, Mara investigates. It's a good read but I found the relationship with the kin...
Due to copy and paste, formatting has been lost.I'm a big fan of historical YA as a genre. That being said, I wasn't a big fan of this book. It was heartbreakingly slow-- to the point that nothing really happened. I may like historical, but I like a little mystery or intrigue. This didn't deliver on...
I have a feeling the cover is going to be better than the book but...
I have a feeling the cover is going to be better than the book but...
Premeditating: I am incredibly wary of young adult historical fiction. I won't even look twice at those pretty dresses and flashy tales about young women in the hight of glamour any more. I have been disillusioned that a beautiful cover means it will be a beautiful book. ... But oh my god! This cove...
The reader is introduced to Jane Austen's cousin Jenny Cooper who is a little older than Jane. The book begins with the girls going into a boarding school in which Jane has got ill. In order to get Jane out of the school to home to get better Jenny has to leave the school during the night and wonder...
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