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A review by pineconek
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
3.75
2024 has been my year of (reading about) pestilence.
I picked up this book because I love Speak. But it ended up being one of many books about fictionalized but realistic epidemics I've read this year. Reading this so closely to the Doomsday Book and Shipwrecks really layered the imagery of rampant disease and the horrors that follow.
Fever 1793 was the middle grade version of these books. It was somewhat formulaic and predictable, but this worked well to deliver the story of how yellow fever decimated Philadelphia. This deceptively quick read features a lot of death, and helplessness, and history lessons (including real quotes from the period at the start of each chapter).
Recommended if you kinda miss the feeling of reading a book for 8th grade English class tbh. 3.75 star rounded up.
I picked up this book because I love Speak. But it ended up being one of many books about fictionalized but realistic epidemics I've read this year. Reading this so closely to the Doomsday Book and Shipwrecks really layered the imagery of rampant disease and the horrors that follow.
Fever 1793 was the middle grade version of these books. It was somewhat formulaic and predictable, but this worked well to deliver the story of how yellow fever decimated Philadelphia. This deceptively quick read features a lot of death, and helplessness, and history lessons (including real quotes from the period at the start of each chapter).
Recommended if you kinda miss the feeling of reading a book for 8th grade English class tbh. 3.75 star rounded up.