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A review by jennaaah
The Children's Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
2.0
Big time Spoilers:
Everything bad about the 1880’s seemed to be dumped into one book. Dysfunctional relationships, death by nature and murder, selling kids, newspaper omissions, depression, all the problems of immigrating to a new territory and the end where it just grazes the horrors Indian children faced when they were taken away from their homes to be “schooled” for their own good. Yuck this book should not have happened.
I had never heard about the children’s blizzard before this book. For that reason I gave it two stars and that’s being generous. I was intrigued to read about their strategy to survive such a brutal event. What I got was half a book of blizzard and the second half a super sad life story of those main characters. It spans unknown years but why??? I know why people stopped reading halfway through, the rest is so very unnecessary. I would have liked to have my own imagination hope for the best for all that survived the blizzard.
What happened was super sad but it wasn’t told in a way that you can feel and relate to the characters. I thought all the characters where awful in their own way except maybe Annette. So if you still want to read about the blizzard read the first half.
Everything bad about the 1880’s seemed to be dumped into one book. Dysfunctional relationships, death by nature and murder, selling kids, newspaper omissions, depression, all the problems of immigrating to a new territory and the end where it just grazes the horrors Indian children faced when they were taken away from their homes to be “schooled” for their own good. Yuck this book should not have happened.
I had never heard about the children’s blizzard before this book. For that reason I gave it two stars and that’s being generous. I was intrigued to read about their strategy to survive such a brutal event. What I got was half a book of blizzard and the second half a super sad life story of those main characters. It spans unknown years but why??? I know why people stopped reading halfway through, the rest is so very unnecessary. I would have liked to have my own imagination hope for the best for all that survived the blizzard.
What happened was super sad but it wasn’t told in a way that you can feel and relate to the characters. I thought all the characters where awful in their own way except maybe Annette. So if you still want to read about the blizzard read the first half.