janetlun 's review for:

Arabella of Mars by David D. Levine

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Arabella is a wonderful young hero, and the author keeps tossing her into peril which she overcomes with her brain and courage. I adored the Horatio Hornblower books as a teenager, and the Patrick O'Brien books as an adult, and I lapped up the section of adventure and derring-do on the sailing "ship". The alternative-history setting felt real and authentic, and I couldn't put it down.