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A review by popcorndiva
In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton
3.0
DNF.
I really should have loved this. The Salem Witchcraft Trials have also been immensely fascinating to me and the fact that this book was framed in a historical/feminist context was very intriguing. However, I just could not finish this. The way that it was written was hard to follow. I appreciate the extensive background information on each person, but it really turned into information overload. I almost feel like I needed to take notes as I read to keep everyone and their family history straight.
Clearly Norton is well educated on the subject and she has a lot of important things to say, but it was just too dense for me. I'd like to pick this one back up in the future, but I will definitely approach it more as a textbook type reading than a typical non-fiction.
I really should have loved this. The Salem Witchcraft Trials have also been immensely fascinating to me and the fact that this book was framed in a historical/feminist context was very intriguing. However, I just could not finish this. The way that it was written was hard to follow. I appreciate the extensive background information on each person, but it really turned into information overload. I almost feel like I needed to take notes as I read to keep everyone and their family history straight.
Clearly Norton is well educated on the subject and she has a lot of important things to say, but it was just too dense for me. I'd like to pick this one back up in the future, but I will definitely approach it more as a textbook type reading than a typical non-fiction.