Reviews - Gilded Mountain: A Novel

141 reviews for:

Gilded Mountain: A Novel

Kate Manning

3.78 AVERAGE

jnicely's review

4.5

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

iphigenie72's review

3.0

adventurous informative sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The story is very good, I liked it. The problem is that no editor went through that french, it was just horrible: syntax, grammar, words that don’t exist and the accents were playing musical chairs; the Québécois slang is mainly good though. Too bad because this is about unions and I work for one so I was very interested. Hope this publisher Scribner learns that publishing bad french was not acceptable in 2022. It’s funny in a way that they didn’t pay someone to do it right with the subject matter of the book being about workers earning the right amount for their labour.

k8we's review

4.5

adventurous emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

readwith_adele's review

4.25

inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

joshbutchart's review

3.75

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

marianeedstoread's review

4.0

This novel takes us into the snowy mountains of Colorado to a marble mining town in the early 1900’s. Sylvie’s father works in the treacherous mine owned by the Padgett Co. as their family suffers through a brutal winter. Her father tries hard to get the miners in with the Union so they can get paid and improve their work and life conditions as the company greedily spends its earnings on lavish niceties. Sylvie’s life changes as she meets the feminist newspaper editor, KT Redmond who takes her under her wing and encourages her to expose the evils of the Padgetts and the Moonstone mine. As tragedy strikes and heartbreak entails, Sylvie finds herself questioning how best she can help those around her in this mining town where the poor are treated as badly as slaves and money is the only thing that the rich care about.

This novel was SO good! I loved Sylvie’s character and how she “grows up” in this novel, making both good and bad choices as she sheds her naïveté. I loved the strong female characters and the attention to not only the feminist movement, but also the plight of the poor and of black people in the aftermath of slavery’s end. Our country has a huge problem with helping others and sharing wealth. So many of the themes in this novel are still relevant in today’s world.

Thank you to @bookclubfavorites @simonandschuster and @scribnerbooks for this advance readers copy. This novel will be available on 11/1/2022.