Category: Reviews

A secluded island turned romantic resort, murder, a mysterious ring, an unknown woman in white, secret passages, cliff top struggles, old family legends of bloody hands, a locked room and missing key, romance and love that lasts beyond a lifetime.  These are the elements you’ll find in Tammie Clarke Gibbs’ Island of Secrets. Shane Alexander is a […]

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Reviews of Robin Hood have been quite mixed.  I come down on the positive side. My experience of the movie suggests that the biggest cause of poor reviews might be expectations.  Robin Hood is an icon: Lincoln green, pointy hats, feats of archery, Sherwood forest with his merry outlawed men, the lovely maid Marian, disguises and tricks against […]

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My  game plan is to stick with reviewing books with some similarities to mine: medieval Europe, time travel, or music.  The Historianby Elizabeth Kostovatakes place in 1972, but it is a story within a story within a story, as various characters pursue the historical truth of Vlad Tepes, 15th Century prince of Wallachia. He has come down […]

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In keeping with the theme of my blog, I present another time travel book: Joan Szechtman’s new book, This Time, in an original twist of the time travel genre, is the story of King Richard III of England, rescued in his final moments on Bosworth Field by modern science. He is brought into the modern […]

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