by Rea Keech | Mar 22, 2017 | All Book Reviews, Historical Fiction, Rea's Reviews
The More Things Change . . . Review by Rea Keech There couldn’t be a better time than now to read the story of a Syrian immigrant arriving in the United States. Saddo (Sam) Hanna is fleeing not the current ravages of warfare but the tyranny of the Ottoman Empire in...
by Rea Keech | Feb 7, 2017 | All Book Reviews, Historical Fiction, Rea's Reviews, Reviews of Maryland Writers
Clash of Clans Review by Rea Keech Tribal or clan warfare is still a major type of fighting that goes on in the world today. Campbell Ogilvy at the Battle of Arbroath is a historical novel depicting a feudal rivalry between clans in medieval Scotland. By examining the...
by Rea Keech | Jan 25, 2017 | All Book Reviews, Historical Fiction, Rea's Reviews, Reviews of Maryland Writers
A Chronicle of Getting By Review by Rea Keech One reviewer aptly characterizes this enjoyable book as a “domestic historical novel.” The author uses diaries and letters to imagine the daily lives of her mother’s family from 1895 to1933 in Washington, D.C. The bulk of...
by Tom Keech | Dec 14, 2016 | All Book Reviews, Historical Fiction, Tom's Reviews
What? Four New Gospels? Review by Tom Keech This is a novel of historical fiction reinterpreting the life and death of Yehoshuah (Jesus) as told by four new narrators. His mother, Miriam (Mary), is spurned throughout her life by her cold and querulous son. Deeply...
