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This is a lovely gem of a book.
May 25, 2020
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This book was just what I needed! I used to be a big historical fiction reader, but I got away from the genre in the last few years and haven't read much. I felt the itch to ease myself back into it, and News of the World was the perfect re-introduction.
The history and landscape here are richly woven, but not so much that I felt bogged down by the historical details. It was just enough to really give the reader a sense of time and place, and build up Captain Kidd's character, without becoming o ...more
The history and landscape here are richly woven, but not so much that I felt bogged down by the historical details. It was just enough to really give the reader a sense of time and place, and build up Captain Kidd's character, without becoming o ...more
I really, really enjoyed this. For a short novel, it really creates an amazing sense of both time and place, without those details getting in the way of the plot. Of all the genres, Westerns may be the area I’m the least well read in, which is sort of funny because as a kid I was obsessed with any story with people in covered wagon trains. I’ll have to dig around in the genre a bit and find some others that I like.
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