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Mendocino

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This light and easy historical fiction was a pleasure to read. Based on my own visit and experiences in Mendocino, Calif., the historical facts are basically accurate. One can truly imagine the town as the story progresses through many generations of several families and their lives in the area. The novel is especially recommended for those visiting or planning to visit the wonderful town of Mendocino.

This is a fun historical novel in the Louis L'Amour style. The historical timelines and occurances are fairly accurate (sometimes a bit brutal) and the human interest is strong and the depth of relationships and thoughfulness is moving. I live in this area so it was especially fun for me.

I very rarely start any novel -- even a really badly written one -- without reading it to the end. This is not a badly written novel -- in fact the writing style is very proficient. There is a ring of historical autenticity under the story line, and a breath of life in the characters. At least that is what I must say about Section 1, for that is all I read.

The book, or at least that segment of it is such a depressing downer -- especially the end of it, that there was absolutely nothing to draw me forward into the next one. I know that death and brutality are factors of true life, and were encountered by people of certain historical places and times. However reading about those experiences is not something that I would choose for "entertainment".

Unless you have a strong stomach, or a particular prurient interest in a sort of stretched out telling of man's inhumanity to man, and why America historically isn't really God's gift to humanity, you might do best to pass this one by.