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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Incredible story,
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This review is from: The Burning Bride (Hardcover)
After reading Hearts and Bones and Blood Red Roses by Margaret Lawrence I couldn't resist spending a few extra dollars on the hardback edition of The Burning Bride. I wasn't disappointed.This is an incredible series set a few years after the Revolutionary War in Maine. The story centers around Hanna Trevor, the local mid-wife, her lover Daniel Josselyn and their daughter, Jennett. In each book the story becomes more complex and the characters are more interesting. The series is about life after the Revolutionary War and how everything wasn't the picture perfect life everybody thought it to be. Greed, debtors prison, taxes, murder, treason, audultery, rape, prostitution and love are all intertrined in this incredible story. Ms. Lawrence has outdone herself. I definetly recommend starting with the first of the series.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superlative historical fiction,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Burning Bride (Hardcover)
These three books are a must-read for anyone interested in the post revolutionary period. Beautifully written, unusual in form, with wonderful characterizations: Lawrence succeeds where so many don't even try to make us understand the women of this time and place. There is a love story (although I would disagree with the reviewer -- it is not steamy, but simply evocative, and touching), and there are mysteries, and both of them are wonderfully done but these novels are more than the sum of their parts. Lawrence draws on the life of Hannah Trevor, a midwife who lived in Maine during this period, and in doing so she brings that resonant and important voice back to life.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not as good as the first two, but perhaps I should have read them back to back instead of years apart!,
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This review is from: The Burning Bride (Mass Market Paperback)
It's been a long time since I read the first two books in this series, and so I was a little confused when reading the last. I had forgotten the names of the many characters, their histories, what was going on via government at the time. Eventually though, I figured it out. I would recommend reading the three books in this series back to back though instead of spread out. It will give you a bigger picture of the story.This is the third, and I think last, book in the Hanna Trevor series. Its fall in Maine and the annual Mustering of the Militia has come. Hanna's soon to be husband, and father of her daughter and unborn child is in charge of the Militia. At the same time a riot act is being enforced because of the massive debt problems and the mustering of the common people against the courts. And of course, a man is found murdered. Initially the thought is that the mans servant killed him. But when another man is killed, shot from a long distance by an expert sniper, it brings back memories of the war to Hanna's Daniel of a similar situation and three sisters..... Like the others, the story is told through multiple points of view, character journal entries, coroners findings, biographical sections on characters...even recopies. This method does make for an easy and interesting way of piecing together the evidence (as one of the sections is called.) I have to admit I was a little disappointed by the mystery aspect of this book. I had the identity of the killer figured out very early, though admittedly I didn't understand all the elements at play. What was good in this novel was everything else that was going on-the political strife, the rupture in the town between rich and poor, the coming together of Daniel and Hanna. Overall though, this book doesn't meet the quality of the first two, Hearts and Bones and Blood Red Roses. Also every killer this author writes about is mad in some way and while this brings up interesting questions about weather or not you have to be insane in some way to take another's life, I know that there are calculated murders that are done for gain and not because of any emotional instability. It would be nice to see Hanna figure out one of those because otherwise the town she lives in has a disproportionate number of insane people (and murders to think of it.) Three Stars.
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