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A review by mikec363
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff
1.0
Wow, I made it to the end, only because I spent money on it. What a catastrophe - I don’t understand how this made it past an editor. Stacy Schiff’s “style” is unreadable. A strange halting style written in hints and riddles, and as another reviewer notes, dangling modifiers everywhere. I routinely lost track of who or what she was talking about. This flowery prose may work for fiction, but absolutely not for history.
The first chapter reads as if she took a coherent story, put all the sentences in a blender, then put them back in the book in the random order they came out. One sentence has absolutely nothing to do with the rest. This never gets better. In fact, it gets worse.
Strongest recommendation to avoid.
The first chapter reads as if she took a coherent story, put all the sentences in a blender, then put them back in the book in the random order they came out. One sentence has absolutely nothing to do with the rest. This never gets better. In fact, it gets worse.
Strongest recommendation to avoid.