by envisionmg | Aug 24, 2018 | Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. opens with a woman setting in a house somewhere in Victorian London. She is taking up her quill to write out the history of the shadowy government organization called D.O.D.O. She is bound and determined that her narrative will destroy...
by envisionmg | Aug 10, 2018 | History, Jim Reviews
The first thing you learn from Inheritance of Rome is studying the dark ages is hard. The introduction is basically an explanation of why we can’t really know for sure what the dark ages were like. Not only are the sources limited but scholars are carrying...
by envisionmg | Jul 27, 2018 | History, Jim Reviews
Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits is the story of a crime wave that gripped Paris and to a lesser extent the rest of France from 1911 to 1912. Although largely unknown today, it sent waves of panic throughout Paris. Headlines about the crime even drove the sinking of...
by envisionmg | Jul 27, 2018 | History, Jim Reviews
In tandem with my reading of White Mirror, I’ve also been listening to Imperial Twilight. I was vaguely aware that there was an Opium War and that it basically amounted to the British declaring war on China to force them to buy drugs from their colony in India....
by envisionmg | Jul 18, 2018 | Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews
Do you ever have those times where you really love a book and you think “oh I can’t wait until the next one comes out!” Then life moves on and suddenly you look back and not only have you missed the next one but you missed the next one after that....
by envisionmg | Jun 27, 2018 | Historical Fiction, Jim Reviews
You may remember from a post of mine a couple of weeks ago that I was reading Buckley’s latest, Judge Hunter. I enjoyed that book so much I basically turned around and pulled Relic Master right off the shelf and dug in. Relic Master has a lot of the same...
