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Tidewater: A Novel of Pocahontas and the Jamestown Colony
by Libbie Hawker
NOTE: Received as an ARC for review from Netgalley.
Unlike the Disney version, the real Pocahontas was a little girl, not a teenager, when she took on the task of translator between the English in Jamestown and the Real People. Although she and John Smith had more in common than might be expected (he was not an English gentleman, and she was not a princess), they formed a tenuous but lasting friendship--nothing more. The idea that it was ambition, not romance, that initially drove her to be the liaison between the English and the Real People was completely new to me and is what hooked me. No one's motives are completely pure in this fascinating novel, not even Pocahontas's, which makes the characters and story all the more believable and interesting.
Unlike the Disney version, the real Pocahontas was a little girl, not a teenager, when she took on the task of translator between the English in Jamestown and the Real People. Although she and John Smith had more in common than might be expected (he was not an English gentleman, and she was not a princess), they formed a tenuous but lasting friendship--nothing more. The idea that it was ambition, not romance, that initially drove her to be the liaison between the English and the Real People was completely new to me and is what hooked me. No one's motives are completely pure in this fascinating novel, not even Pocahontas's, which makes the characters and story all the more believable and interesting.