Reader’s Choice Giveaway – Spring 2025 Edition – Historical Fiction

Signs of spring means my bookish fancy turns to the joy of new releases so it’s time to plot our way into a new season of wonderful reads which is where this Reader’s Choice Week comes into play.

Here’s how this week’s giveaways works: You recommend CHRISTIAN FICTION genre specific titles with release dates in April, May or June 2025 (up to 3 suggestions per genre day) and you have a chance to win one of your recommendations! BUT it’s a little more complicated than that so be sure to read ALL the details before entering.

IMPORTANT TO NOTE: These giveaways are available in paperback or ebook format to US and Canadian readers. Ebooks available internationally if you have a .com kindle account (US Amazon)

IT’S HISTORICAL ROMANCE/FICTION GIVEAWAY DAY!

To be entered in the draw just leave a comment (or 3) below, including the title(s) of the books in the Historical Fiction genre you would like to win.

Historical Romance/Fiction – a full length story or novella or collection of novellas set in any time period before 1980. May cross genres such as YA, Suspense, Amish etc. and may include dual timelines.

How does it work?

Easy Peasy! Make recommendations in the comment section and if you win, you win the book you suggested.

BUT YOU GOTTA FOLLOW THE RULES!

Publication date must be April, May or June 2025

Each day is genre specific, so only submit titles from that genre

Christian Fiction books only please!

You can offer up to three suggestions per genre day BUT they need to be made in 3 separate comments (easier for me to keep track of.)

No email entries this time round since WP comments are working

OF SPECIAL NOTE: IF YOU HAVEN’T COMMENTED ON THIS BLOG BEFORE, YOUR FIRST COMMENT WON’T APPEAR UNTIL I APPROVE IT. AFTER THAT YOUR COMMENTS WILL POST AUTOMATICALLY.

Entrants must submit their own selections (no piggybacking on someone else’s log in.)

It’s helpful to include your email (using AT and DOT instead of @ and . to protect yourself from spammers) but you only need to add it to one of your comments per day. If you choose not to include your email then it’s up to you to contact me if you are a winner.

SPECIAL NOTE: Harper Muse books won’t fit into the giveaway criteria since they aren’t Christian Fiction even though some of our fave authors have moved over to this imprint.

DRAW WILL BE HELD AND WINNER ANNOUNCED ON

Saturday March 29 2025

(You can enter any of the giveaways up until noon on March 29. Winners will be announced later that afternoon.)

147 thoughts on “Reader’s Choice Giveaway – Spring 2025 Edition – Historical Fiction”

    1. Love your first choice – something so Gothic-y about an inheritance story and that cover! But I’m kinda scared of your second choice because….love triangle alert! I’ll have to wait and read some reviews before I venture there. 🙂 Good luck, Stephanie!

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    1. Eeeeppp — totally on board for a new Jen Turnano! She always makes me laugh. And I have yet to catch up with Gabrielle Meyer’s series and another new book is coming out. Ack! Good luck, Kathryn!

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  10. To Love a Beast by Karen Witemeyer 6/10

    Thanks for the giveaways Kav during one of the best weeks of the year!

    tracey14567 @gmail.com

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    2. OOoooohhhhm. forgot that Karen Witemeyer has a new Fairy Tale retelling coming out! And if I’m correct, it looks from the Amazon listing that it’s indie published. Pretty sure we talked about that a while back — her continuing the series indenpendtly. So, hopefully a print copy will become available closer to the release date. They seem to always come up later with Indies. Good luck, Tracey!

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  11. I’m using my phone so I hope I don’t accidentally piggyback anyone. 😕 Will this dual-timeline work?

    1) Tempest at Annabel’s Lighthouse by Jaime Jo Wright (Apr 1)

    dianalflowers at aol dot com

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    1. Well, two things we all know if you’ve read my comments 1) I’m on my phone bc autocorrect says what it wants to say and 2) the font’s too small for me to see it to correct it myself! 🤣 Sorry, Ann. That’s Gabhart. Sigh . . .

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  14. 3) A Wager with the Matchmaker by Jody Hedlund (May 6)

    Definitely your fave, Irish!!! Thanks for fun giveaway week & a chance to add to our TBR, Kav!

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      1. hahaha Us two chickens haven’t even tried ‘The Irish Matchmaker’ yet! ☺️ I feel like Mikey in that old cereal commercial, I’m not gonna try it, you try it. 😆

        Cool about Jaime’s book working for all those genres. Love her!!

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  17. 3. THE CURIOUS INHERITANCE OF BLAKELY HOUSE by Joanna Davidson Politano

              Release date – April 15, 2025

    2clowns at arkansas dot net

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      1. Do you ever use Hoopla from your digital library? Ours has several Misty Beller books on audio.

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  18. thank you Kav for helping us fill up our TBR shelves.
    #1 June 10 To Love a Beast by Karen Witemeyer
    quilting dash lady at comcast dot net

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    1. The Lawyer and the Laundress by Christine Hill Suntz (Tyndale, June) – I think this is a debut author (in any case, definitely new to me!) Apparently the story takes place in early 1800’s Toronto.

    rdalquist AT gmail DOT com

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  21. 3. A Lesson in Propriety by Jen Turano

    rdalquist AT gmail DOT com

    Thanks for the giveaways! This always a fun way to learn about books coming out that I may have missed!

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  27. From the Valley We Rise, Elizabeth Musser, 6/3

    Sandyavery at comcast dot net

    I also preordered The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House and Every Hour Until Then

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  35. There are a significant number of good historical releases, just on the Baker website alone! Appears to be a good quarter, after the slower first quarter of the year. A Lesson in Propriety by Jen Turano, May.

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  36. A Wager with the Matchmaker by Jody Hedlund, May. Having a touch of the Irish (well, more than a touch) in my ancestry, I am especially enjoying this series.

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  37. The Codebreaker’s Daughter by Amy Lynn Green, June. Just a comment that I also noticed Baker is doing a revised 10th anniversary edition of Lady Maybe by Julie Klassen, releasing in May. Since it is a revised edition of an earlier book, I didn’t think it would fit the category but wanted to mention as many people in the group enjoy her books. Always a fun week! Thanks!

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    1. Yes, there are some great historical novels releasing this season. I’m so excited. At first I was worried that we were starting to lose our beloved historicals but clearly that’s not the case! Woohoo! And thanks for the Lady Maybe info – I have only one Julie Klassen book left to read, her latest one, and I’ll have read them all. Good luck, Cc!

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    1. Yay — I’m caught up with the Huntresses series…I think. I have a few in the Lancaster and Jonquil series which are kind of related. Love Sarah M. Eden’s books. I have there time travel. one on my TBR right now — so excited to get to it. Good luck, Heidi!

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  50. 1/3 – The Lawyer and the Laundress by Christine Hill Suntz – releases in June. She is Canadian and it’s her debut!

    Thanks for the opportunity!
    Tam – appletamoATyahooDOTca

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