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BOOK REVIEW: Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelley Lytle Hernández

Hi everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I’m reviewing Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández. This book was published on May 10th, 2022, and it is a nonfiction account of the events that occurred in Mexico and the United States leading up to the Mexican Revolution of 1910. These events can be summed up as follows: Miguel Hidalgo, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Benito Juárez, and, most prominently, Porfirio Díaz, all make an appearance in Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández but the most important…

BOOK REVIEW: The Plantagenets by Dan Jones

Hi everyone. Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Review. Today I will be reviewing The Plantagenets by Dan Jones. This book relates 245 years of English history and warfare as the country transforms from an Anglo-Norman realm to one of the most powerful and sophisticated realms in Europe of the Middle Ages. However, the subtitle of this book is a little misgiving. There were only two queens in the entire period of English history that this book relates that can be said to have been significant players in the politics of their age; the first was Empress Maude, the mother of Henry…

BOOK SERIES: The Enduring Flame Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory

Hello again everyone. Today I’m reviewing The Enduring Flame Trilogy as a whole by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory. There will be no individual book reviews posted for this second series of the Obsidian Universe. The Enduring Flame Trilogy was published in 2007-2009. Click here for more information on this series. General Thoughts I’ll begin this review by saying that I intentionally did not read this trilogy for the longest time. I thought about buying it several times and always decided against it, until I finally said, “Screw it,” and bought all three books on a whim. I had already…