THE WOMEN OF TROY by Pat Barker

now have to spend the rest of their lives as slaves for the Greeks are getting used to their new life.

My Weekly TBR pile

I will finish these three books in the next week or weeks, depending on how fast I read, and then I will let you know my thoughts once I'm done. Stay tuned!

Historical Fiction TBR list

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TROJAN WARS & SPANISH KINGS

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THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS by Pat Barker

This book, The Silence of the Girls, is powerful as well but it’s almost too blunt in its realness. But that would also be unfair to say—that it’s too blunt—because nothing happened in this book that wouldn’t have happened in real life, and so if this book is too blunt, then real life itself is too blunt as well. In truth I just found it kind of horrible that all of these female characters suffered such a harsh fate.

THE GUINEVERE DECEPTION

THE GUINEVERE DECEPTION by Kiersten WhiteYA Fantasy I picked up this book on my quest to read anything and everything Arthurian. It wasn't what I expected, but I thought the writing was very good and eventually I grew to like that so many legendary tropes were subverted in this mythical retelling. It makes this story …

AN ENCHANTMENT OF RAVENS

AN ENCHANTMENT OF RAVENS by Margaret RogersonYA Fantasy This book started off very strongly for me and then kind of fizzled out at the middle and the end. If you like stories about the Fae then I would by all means encourage you to read this book. It has a very unique world building and …

SUMMER OF ’69

SUMMER OF '69 by Elin Hilderbrand Historical Fiction I used to mainly read fantasy and science fiction, but now that I am venturing out and reading other genres (such as historical fiction) I am seeing that I have been missing out from a whole scope of realistic, human emotion contained within other types of stories. …

THE WICKED KING

THE WICKED KING by Holly Black YA Fantasy This is the second installment in Holly Black’s ‘Folk of the Air’ series about a mortal girl living in Faerie and carving a space for herself in the Faerie court. Jude is now working as the spy for Cardan, the new Faerie king, whom she keeps under …

LOOKING FOR ALASKA

LOOKING FOR ALASKA by John GreenYA Contemporary Looking for Alaska is about a teenage boy named Miles who decides to go to Boarding School in order to escape his dull and friendless existence at home. His world is turned upside down when he meets a beautiful, smart and self-destructive girl named Alaska Young.Miles falls hard …