I love historical novels. (Admission: I write them myself.) Which is why I was particularly frustrated with this one. Great research in some places ... real errors in others. (See other reviews.) The concept was good .. but the pace was slow, and sometimes the characters were confusing. Plus, the...
This is only the second novel I can remember reading that is set in 17th century Manhattan, and the first was by Lois Lenski when I was in fourth grade! That fact alone would make this an interesting story. But add to that the sudden disappearance of orphan children in this relatively small Du...
I loved the history, the details, in this novel, and the mystery had me hooked most of the way through. Something about much of it seemed just a little bit like a TV mystery though...a good one, but a few scenes, especially by the end, just seemed too stereotypically obvious. But, that said, ther...
Are we fortune’s playthings? Does a divinity shape our ends? Such concerns packed themselves tightly within the “nature versus nurture” debate, which was raging in the East Coast intellectual circles that my father frequented. Not limited to the domain of natural science, ...