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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
The whole time I was reading this book I kept wishing it was a non-fiction book instead. It is clear that the author spent considerable time doing research for this novel, so much so that the "story" gets lost in the dense details. I had a hard time sorting out all the characters, and kept having to refer to the book jacket to remember who Daniel was and who was in the Civil War and who wasn't. Parts of this book were excellent and riveting, but the overall effect was a novel that tried too hard. Free of anything offensive (well other than the actions of those who were members of the South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club - but that is another story), there is enough here to generally recommend to people who enjoy historical fiction.
This book was picked randomly off of the shelf in the library without any recommendation or even knowledge of what it was about. (Thus is my life in the summer with a baby in my arms and a 6 year old in tow.) Sometimes this randomness provides a means of finding new authors and good stories. This time it produced a historically inspired, but ficticious account of the Great flood of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The author attempts to get into the lives of the people it effected and those that had a part in its being. The story was accurate in a lot of the details of the flood, but the story kept jumping from one set of characters to another so that sometimes it was hard to follow.
The story took me most of the book to get into, and for its length took longer to read than it should have.
The story took me most of the book to get into, and for its length took longer to read than it should have.