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The Hive’s latest HISTORICAL FANTASY book reviews!


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    By Asha
    November 24, 2021
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    THE WINTER GARDEN by Alexandra Bell (BOOK REVIEW)

    Content warnings: Death of parents and children, and grief; spousal abuse in all forms; drug use; pregnancy complications and intense postpartum depression.  Welcome to the Winter ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHistoricalRetelling
    By Asha
    October 26, 2021
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    WENDY, DARLING by A C Wise (BOOK REVIEW

    Content warnings: A huge amount of medical abuse and gaslighting; depictions of abusive asylums; mentions of suicide; mentions of sexual assault. I don’t tend to consider ...
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  • Alternate HistoryBook ReviewsFantasyHistoricalHistorical
    By Jonathan Thornton
    August 24, 2021
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    A MAN LIES DREAMING & THE LUNACY COMMISSION by Lavie Tidhar (BOOK REVIEWS)

    “But there you are wrong, for this is no longer the world you knew, the world any of us knew. That world is dead, everything is ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyFeaturesHistoricalWomen In SFF
    By Asha
    July 9, 2021
    838
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    BRIGHTFALL by Jaime Lee Moyer (BOOK REVIEW)

    When I first heard that there was going to be a magical Robin Hood story that picked up years after the heyday of the Merry Men, ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHistorical
    By Bethan Hindmarch
    May 14, 2021
    952
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    MARION LANE AND THE MIDNIGHT MURDER by T. A. Willberg (BOOK REVIEW)

    ‘I know who they’ve accused of White’s murder,’ she whispered. Her voice sounded unfamiliar, even to herself. Thin and worn, like her nerves. Marion Lane and ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHistorical
    By Filip Magnus
    May 6, 2021
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    Sistersong by Lucy Holland – Book Review

    Published by Macmillan Genre: historical fantasy Pages: 416 (Hardcover) Format: ebook Review Copy: Thanks to Black Crow PR for approving me on NetGalley. In Sistersong, Lucy ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHistoricalRetelling
    By Jonathan Thornton
    April 3, 2021
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    SISTERSONG by Lucy Holland (BOOK REVIEW)

    “I wander so long, it feels as though I’ve crossed some hidden boundary. I’ve left our world for theirs – the nameless land where goddesses sing ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHistoricalLiterary
    By Filip Magnus
    December 7, 2020
    1072
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    The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow—Book Review

    Published by: Orbit. Genres: Historical Fantasy. Pages: 528. Format: Paperback. Copy: Purchased at my local sci-fi bookstore. Support local, folks! With Alix E. Harrow’s new novel, ...
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  • FantasyHistorical
    By Nils Shukla
    November 6, 2020
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    The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton – Book Review

    The Devil and the Dark Water is nothing short of a remarkably turbulent mystery from Stuart Turton, an author who has firmly established himself as a ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyHistoricalNorse
    By Steve Thomas
    September 10, 2020
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    BEOWULF: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley (BOOK REVIEW)

    So. Here’s the thing about Beowulf. A lot of people have bad high school memories of reading an archaic, basic myth about a dude whose sole ...
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