Geri (geejay) - reviewed on 3/26/2009 + 85 more book reviews

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This is a sequel to The Alienist. The beginning of this book provides enough background information about the earlier adventure so that it stands alone. This serves two ways. First if you're familiar with the Alienist but need a bit of recall (sometime I do)and a first time Carr reader. This is one series that you can start with book two but, I'm fussy and like to start with the first. Just me.

Carr manages to portray early-day feminists and feminist theory in what seems to be an authentic fashion. I felt he accurately portrayed feminist thought in its incipient stages. Any so-called immaturity of thought on the parts of those characters seems, in historical context, appropriate.

In this book the narrator is a character found in the Alienist, Stevie. I'm learned that Carr plans to write additional Alienist volumes and put each one in a different voice. All in all, an excellent work.

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