This is a book club pick, and I am giving up on it. The 140 pages have read like the bad novels that I recall being forced to read in elementary school- as a way to learn about Canada's early years. I am bored stiff. This yawn of a novel is not for me. Chewing through each page is as appetizing as the food that was served on the boat on route to Canada. The sections of the novel, while they flow chronologically, are very choppy. While detail about olfactory and visual senses is plentiful, the characters are flat. It is as though the author wrote this novel in daily sections, without rereading what she wrote the day before- plenty of repetition, no real flow. I'm off to the next novel- in hopes that I shake off the grumps this novel cast upon me This was a read full of what appears to be accurate historical detail--from the conditions of life in the 1660s, to the institutions, to the French/european attitudes towards the Algonquin and Iroquois peoples. It's not a BIG story, with a great denouement, but a satisfying slice of what it might have been like to have been a single woman of no means or family, and how her welfare might have been provided in French society of the time and how poor women were used to fulfill the imperialistic political purposes of helping to populate and secure the Quebec settlements as colonies of France.
What do You think about The Bride Of New France (2000)?
Really enjoyed this book. Suzanne Desrochers built the character of Laure beautifully.
—Lelemomoney
Loved this odd, sad little book - not for everyone though
—Meh
Great book...lots of reference to Quebec!!!
—Chapeton
