On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month . . .November 11, 1918. After four long, dark years of fighting, the Great War ends at last, and the world is forever changed. For soldiers, loved ones, and survivors, the years ahead stretch with new promise, even as their hearts are ma...
I won this anthology at the Smart Bitches Recommendation Party at RT con earlier this year and have been waiting patiently for November to come so I could read this. 1. Daughter of Belguim by Marci Jefferson - 3.5 stars Content warning: the beginning of the story deals with the rape of a teen ...
Fall of Poppies: Stories Of Love And The Great War***I won this book from Library Thing as part of the Early Reviewers program. It is a book of short stories which take place during WWI. It covers the impact of Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, on the troops of and the families awaiting the return o...
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month November 1918...signified the end of the war in Europe. A devasting war where so many lives were lost.Poppies are often used for remembrance, particularly from WWI so the title of this book is particularly poignant. The Fall of Poppies i...
Marie had been in an Abbey and her uncle Cardinal Jules Mazarin took her out and took her to the french court. Marie was intelligent, passionate, romantic, stubborn but at the same time vulnerable. King Louis XIV was also known as the Sun King. Louis was young, idealistic, and growing into his duti...
Fall of Poppies is a collection of nine historical fiction short stories by some of my favorite authors. Focusing on the effects of people’s lives and relationships after World War I ended, each story digs into a different aspect of love, loss and moving on. Every story brings something different an...
I enjoyed [b:Girl on the Golden Coin: A Novel of Frances Stuart|17934503|Girl on the Golden Coin A Novel of Frances Stuart|Marci Jefferson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1375931501s/17934503.jpg|23857015] and found myself looking forward to reading more from this author. However, having recently rea...
How good was this book? I finished it in a little under two days. That's quite the accomplishment considering I spent the better part of one of those days hungover. Roller derbies and breweries make for an exciting Saturday....anyway....As far as British monarchs go, I know little about the ones tha...
Full review here. A really lovely debut novel, with a heroine I'd have to hate were she not so fabulous. Courtier Frances Stuart is so super gorgeous more than one monarch propositions her, but she's known for putting them off (sort of). Badly done, Frances would have been a flaky flip-flopp...
I read this back in December and decided to hold off posting my review until closer to the publication date. This is a fascinating fictionalized look at Frances Stuart's life. I did not know much about Frances before reading this book so I did some research on her and it made me eager to read this...
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