AlternativeHistory

Fatherland | Robert Harris

Next up - I've been waiting to get to this one for a while now, and excited to finally start it. I am a sucker for WW2 novels, so I imagine I will really enjoy this (imagining a world where the Nazis won WW2). #BookTwoOf2026

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RamsFan1963

Fallout: The Hot War | Harry Turtledove

June wasn't a great month for reading, only finished 7 books. Harry Turtledove's alternate history of the Korean War was my favorite of the month.

#12Booksof2025 @TheEllieMo

TheEllieMo This sounds interesting 6d

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Ddzmini

Beat the Devils | Josh Weiss

so-so

Takes a lot to get a so-so out of me but when you put a famous person in a fictional book it hits wrong… unless that person was a jerk-face in real life and still not right but I‘m sure this is a good read for others … I just want my fiction- fiction and not with real world characters 👀 unless it‘s not fiction… like an autobiographical or true crime 👀 sorry… not sorry really but sorry

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Decalino

Ten Incarnations of Rebellion | Vaishnavi Patel

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In a world where the British eliminated the independence movement and India continues to suffer under oppressive colonial rule in the 1960s, Kalki is both a promising young scholarship student and the daughter of a long-vanished rebel. As the years pass, Kalki must continually weigh the cost of resistance against her desire to follow in her father's path and fight for India's freedom. A compelling and heart-wrenching story of rebellion.

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Decalino

Ten Incarnations of Rebellion | Vaishnavi Patel

"I learned how to hope at nineteen."

Just starting this one!

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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julesG

Damned: The magical final adventure in the Scarlet Revolution trilogy | Genevieve Cogman

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Read and reviewed in July #NetGalley #ARC #MountARC

Eleanor and the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel are back on English soil, but that doesn't mean their fight is over. On the contrary, the vampires are conspiring again and are trying to take down the League one member at a time, it seems. Eleanor's mission, given to her by Anima, leads her to uncover a centuries old secret that could mean an end to the vampires influencing humans.
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julesG Eleanor feels torn between the many directions to follow: Anima wants her to uncover the secret, the League needs her, the French Revolution would like to use her as an asset, she wants to be with Charles, she wants to learn more about (her) magic, but she also just wants to make dresses with lovely embroidery. Add the class divide that Eleanor finds insurmountable but everyone else seems to have long forgotten about and accepted her ⬇️ 4mo

julesG as one of their own and you have a cauldron of inner turmoil about to bubble over. Yet it never does. I wanted Eleanor to challenge her position and not just accept it and please everyone around her. I wanted her to be egoistic for once.

All in all it is a reasonably good ending to the trilogy. I just wish a few more questions about Eleanor's magic had been answered. Maybe we'll get a novella set after the end of this book at some point? 4mo

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OutsmartYourShelf

Damned: The magical final adventure in the Scarlet Revolution trilogy | Genevieve Cogman

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1794 & the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is being hampered in its mission. Lady Marguerite is under house arrest on charges of treason & espionage, whilst her husband (& leader of the League) Sir Percy Blakeney is having to keep away lest he is also imprisoned. It is left to Eleanor, former maid, & now a promising mage to assist in rescuing Lady Marguerite. (continued)

OutsmartYourShelf At every turn, they seem to be shadowed by a group of vampires led by Eleanor's former employer, Lady Sophie, & it soon becomes clear that they see the King's illness & the disarray of those in government as a chance for the vampires to plot a coup - the taking over of England itself.

This is an enjoyable final instalment of the trilogy featuring action, magic, intrigue, & just a little bit of romance. 4mo

OutsmartYourShelf There's also the surprising return of a couple of characters from the previous books who are now working with the League, even if it is under sufferance. It has been a really good short series even if I feel that the vampire aspect is underused. 4🌟

My thanks to #NetGalley & publishers, Pan Macmillan/Tor UK, for the opportunity to read an ARC.

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7404600298 4mo

OutsmartYourShelf Read 24th-26th Aug 2025

#ReadAway2025 @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES 4mo

DieAReader 🎉🎉🎉 4mo

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HeyT

On the Oceans of Eternity | S. M. Stirling

HAPPY #BOOKSPIN DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!
I‘m excited by the draw but also my worst fear came true as both picks this month are the chonkiest on the list! It was the number one downside to organizing my list in order of page count lol. This month my bookspin is the tagged and my double is The Dragonbone Chair.

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