A review by abigailbat
Chasing Secrets by Gennifer Choldenko

3.0

It was interesting to read this on my flight to San Francisco, since it deals with a little-known episode in San Francisco history - an outbreak of bubonic plague that happened in the early 1900s. I'm trying to figure out how much my expectations played into my reading of the book because the story turned out to be much less centered on the actual plague (thrilling suspense, medical details, etc.) and much more centered on Lizzie's friendship with a Chinese-American boy. I also would have loved to have seen Chinatown in more detail because I think that would have been really interesting. And OF COURSE there's not much detail about it because IT WAS QUARANTINED during this episode. So, no fault of the book, but this one just wasn't quite the cup of tea for me that I wanted.