Blasco de Castiglione is now a professional soldier, in love with Violante, a beautiful nun-to-be, and with the Donna Gabriella who has captured his heart

The themes of betrayal, friendship, intrigue, and justice start slowly but are brought more and more to the foreground as the hero’s journey of advances

Alaska by James A. Michener can be considered a bunch of loosely based novellas. Each with its own characters, drama, culture, history and story

In a time when Jews around the world are being vilified and antisemitism is running wild, it’s important to remember the consequences of such rhetoric

This was a charming, easy-to-read, lovely story. I read it quickly and enjoyed the story even though I thought most of it was quite predictable

The Forgotten Names is a historical fiction story of a woman who is trying to find the original names of Jewish kids in France who were hidden from the Nazis

Like other Jeff Shaara books, this one also presents historical events from different points of view. And like his other books, this one is also well-researched

I enjoy the Kingsbridge series because of the history and details of how they used to build tremendous buildings without power tools or sophisticated computers

The plot, while historically interesting, goes on irrelevant side stories. The ending is just OK, very strange, and, I thought, unsatisfying.

I hated the author’s passive-aggressive agenda. It just rubbed me the wrong way and seemed hell-bent on incorporating it into his book