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Review Date: 9/8/2012
Even better than I thought it would be. NOT a bodice ripper. A well written historical story of the end of the revolutionary war..revealing atrocities I was not aware of, by the English. Worse than the atrocities by the invading forces of either side of the civil war. A great read by a great story teller! The characters are well fleshed out..only wish it were longer so more of the characters could be even more fleshed out!! A worthy read!
Review Date: 11/20/2012
Helpful Score: 1
I totally devoured this book. It's even better than the first one "Riding Lessons". It's a terrific coming of age story about a woman almost 40 who finally comes to terms with herself and the almost fatal accident in her teen years forming emotional and phsychological displacement for most of her adult life. The characters are well formed and developed and emotions are depicted with beautiful care and understanding. I'd love to have these people as my family, and I can't wait to read another by this very talented author.
Review Date: 9/12/2019
I liked it OK, but just as a romance novel, not historical fiction. As another reviewer put it, it would have been better if shorter. I actually got fairly bored with Eliza's excessive gushing about her husband and didn't finish it, I kept feeling like I was spending time I could ill afford pushing through to finish a book I just wasn't enjoying anymore. Borrowing from other reviewers on Amazon who put my feelings about it better than I can:
"Ultimately, this is NOT a book about Eliza Schulyer Hamilton. It is the story of Alexander Hamilton AS TOLD BY Eliza. That's an important distinction."
"If you are wanting to read a fictionalized, meticulously detailed, re-telling of Alexander Hamilton's life, then you will probably enjoy this. If you are in search of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton's tale, you will most likely be disappointed."
"Eliza lived for 50 years after Alexander died. In a book that claims to be about her, those 50 years are only covered in a 7-page afterword. That's it. Her fate, the fates of her children, her charitable endeavors, more than half of her life, all pushed into an afterword."
"Ultimately, this is NOT a book about Eliza Schulyer Hamilton. It is the story of Alexander Hamilton AS TOLD BY Eliza. That's an important distinction."
"If you are wanting to read a fictionalized, meticulously detailed, re-telling of Alexander Hamilton's life, then you will probably enjoy this. If you are in search of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton's tale, you will most likely be disappointed."
"Eliza lived for 50 years after Alexander died. In a book that claims to be about her, those 50 years are only covered in a 7-page afterword. That's it. Her fate, the fates of her children, her charitable endeavors, more than half of her life, all pushed into an afterword."
Review Date: 9/15/2012
I'm a huge Baldacci fan, but I almost stopped reading about 100 pages in, wondering who was this writing under his name, but suddenly and somehow it grabbed me and I was once again under the spell of the master. I'm not sure what was unimpressive about those first 100 pages, but boy am I glad I persevered!! What a great story..if a little implausable physically and technically..but, that's one of the reasons we read, right? To be taken out of ourselves and the daily realism, into an alternative existence of potential reality. These two lead characters will make you want more of them by the end of the story and the action within the tale is rip-roaring and unrelenting. The use of the WWW (world wide web) to show how invasive and probing the technology is and could be is terrifying and should make us take pause. It's not far outside the realm of possibility and is probably far more advanced already than any citizen of any country realizes. Read, absorb, contemplate.
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