A review by hsrudolph
Gilded Mountain: A Novel by Kate Manning

2.0

Started off strong with the vividly depicted arrival in the early 1900’s of 17 year old Sylvia Pelletier, her mother and brothers, to the Colorado mining community where her father has been working. And then the story and writing lost me. I wanted to feel invested in the characters, and feel rage at the power struggle and the evils and injustices. Instead I mostly felt bored and found that this story just went on and on and wouldn’t end. There was so much foreshadowing; the story hinted at itself and then I felt let down by the telling. There was so much important historial information here, but goodness I barely got through it.