Book and Media Review by History Guy http://bookreview.historyguy.com Reviews of Books, Movies, and other Media on Topics Ranging from History to Urban Fanstasy to Pop Culture. And Comic Books, Yeah, Comics Too! Wed, 12 Apr 2017 19:46:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 A Twist in Time Book Review-Time Travel and Murder in Regency England http://bookreview.historyguy.com/a-twist-in-time-book-review-time-travel-and-murder-in-regency-england/ http://bookreview.historyguy.com/a-twist-in-time-book-review-time-travel-and-murder-in-regency-england/#respond Wed, 12 Apr 2017 19:44:30 +0000 http://bookreview.historyguy.com/?p=68 A Twist in Time Book Review-Time Travel and Murder in Regency England The second book in Julie McElwain’s Kendra Donovan Mysteries series, titled “A Twist in Time,” a good murder mystery set in Regency Period of English history, is a good read if you like historical fiction, murder mysteries, and/or time travel tales. Time travel?  Continue reading →

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]]> http://bookreview.historyguy.com/a-twist-in-time-book-review-time-travel-and-murder-in-regency-england/feed/ 0 All New Suicide Squad #1 Comic Book Review http://bookreview.historyguy.com/all-new-suicide-squad-1-comic-book-review/ http://bookreview.historyguy.com/all-new-suicide-squad-1-comic-book-review/#respond Sat, 21 May 2016 17:52:57 +0000 http://bookreview.historyguy.com/?p=54   All New Suicide Squad #1 Comic Book Review   We offer today a Retro-Review of a DC Comics title--The Suicide Squad–that originally hit the bookshelves in August, 2014.  With the new Suicide Squad movie coming out in the summer of 2016, and the media buzz around this new DC film and the new Joker, Continue reading →

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]]> http://bookreview.historyguy.com/x-men-first-class-review/feed/ 2 Review of Karen Traviss’s Imperial Commando 501st Star Wars Novel http://bookreview.historyguy.com/review-of-karen-travisss-imperial-commando-501st-star-wars-novel/ http://bookreview.historyguy.com/review-of-karen-travisss-imperial-commando-501st-star-wars-novel/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 05:30:43 +0000 http://bookreview.historyguy.com/?p=28 Review of Karen Traviss’s Imperial Commando 501st Star Wars Novel: The recent Star Wars novel by Karen Traviss, Imperial Commando: 501st , is the first of a planned series  of five books, but is preceded by four Republic Commando books, which contain the same basic characters.  None of this I knew when I visited my local Continue reading →

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]]> http://bookreview.historyguy.com/review-of-karen-travisss-imperial-commando-501st-star-wars-novel/feed/ 1 Review of S.M. Stirling’s The Scourge of God, A Novel of the Change http://bookreview.historyguy.com/review-of-s-m-stirlings-the-scourge-of-god-a-novel-of-the-change/ http://bookreview.historyguy.com/review-of-s-m-stirlings-the-scourge-of-god-a-novel-of-the-change/#respond Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:34:48 +0000 http://bookreview.historyguy.com/?p=24 Scourge of God Review The Scourge of God, sequel to S.M. Stirling’s The Sunrise Lands, and a part of the larger Change series, picks up where Sunrise Lands left off.  Our protagonist, Rudi Artos MacKenzie, is on his hero’s quest to the fabled island of Nantucket to retrieve the Sword of the Lady (which happens Continue reading →

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