The Young Savages [Unknown Binding]

Fred Mustard Stewart (Author)

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• Unknown Binding
• Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC (1997)
• ASIN: B002V3NQ3M
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars From someone named Mustard i expected a spicier book, August 5, 2004

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Manola Sommerfeld (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Young Savages (Hardcover)

What a hoot! This soap-opera script is too much. I have to admit i had no idea what this book was about when i picked it up from the shelf. Within a few pages, i read:

"Justin [...] smiled at the daughter he had sired with the exotic Chinese pirate Chang-mei, and whose freedom from the rascally Dowager Empress of China he had bought at such great expense".

And i said to myself: "WHAAAAAATTTTT?!?!?!"

I continued reading till page 120 or so, but this style of writing started to grind on me. It's one thing to make Teddy Roosevelt one of your main characters, but to give him such silly dialog is quite another.

Although this book is amusing and useful in picking up ridiculously trivial factoids (did you ever know that Churchill's father contracted syphillis while a student at Oxford?), it is not worth my time when there are so many piles of books around me screaming "Read ME!!!"

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Young Savages, December 12, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Young Savages (Mass Market Paperback)

'The Young Savages' by Fred Mustard Stewart is well written and very entertaining. It puts you in the nineteenth century into adventure after adventure. You ride a steam locomotive train and experience San Francisco during the Gold Rush. Even Teddy Roosevelt is in this book. You travel from New York to Italy and China. This book has it all. There is a train robbery, cattledrives, romance, murder, greed, espionage, prejudices, kidnapping, and even fencing duels. It is certainly an action-packed book and I recommend it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous, February 16, 1998

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Katie Miller (Ware Shoals, SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Young Savages (Hardcover)

I recently read Stewart's prequel to this book, "The Magnificent Savages" and when I heard the the sequel was coming out I couldn't wait. This book is absolutely wonderful. If you loved his first book you'll enjoy this one too. It is full of history and adventure and love. I hope he continues with this family. They are wonderfully interesting.