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The Marsh King's Daughter
by Karen Dionne
This story follows two timelines of Helena. One timeline follows Helena as a child during her time growing up in a marsh in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Her father had abducted her mother when she was a teenager. The second timeline follows Helena as an adult with a family of her own. The news has just broken that her father has escaped from prison and she's the only one capable of tracking him down.
For the subject matter being potentially very heavy, this book was pretty boring. There was little to no mystery. The synopsis of the book tells the entire plot. And there wasn't the development of the main character Helena to make her actions and past believable. There were things that I enjoyed about the book- the Ojibwe words & culture, the snippets of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale of the same name of this book, and the parts where young Helena learned the ways of the land from her father. There wasn't enough outside of these parts to make a compelling novel.
For the subject matter being potentially very heavy, this book was pretty boring. There was little to no mystery. The synopsis of the book tells the entire plot. And there wasn't the development of the main character Helena to make her actions and past believable. There were things that I enjoyed about the book- the Ojibwe words & culture, the snippets of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale of the same name of this book, and the parts where young Helena learned the ways of the land from her father. There wasn't enough outside of these parts to make a compelling novel.