A review by khornstein1
The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson

4.0

Maybe reading about a Pox Party is not what you should be doing right now. I loved this book up until maybe the last 25%...I don't have a problem with the politics of it: the idea that free blacks and the enslaved were treated horribly during the American Revolution. What I do have a problem with is that Octavian, who has been traumatized and silent, suddenly starts speechifying towards the end of the book and not only that, repeating what he says in case you didn't hear it the first time. It was not very subtle! And the rest of the book was so well done in terms of showing us the horrors of this time period. I was kind of into the battle scenes that took place in Boston because I know the areas mentioned but I wonder how interesting they would be for a YA reader who's not a military history buff...overall, an excellent read.