Pre-Owned The Story of Land and Sea (Hardcover) by Katy Simpson Smith

from hobbitprincess

I enjoy historical fiction, but I'm not sure that I enjoyed this one. The subject matter interested me, and it showed promise, but I found that I just didn't care what happened to the characters. The book may have been touted as a Revolutionary War novel, but that was a very small part of the boo...

from bookmuse56

Occasionally, I read a book that even after a day or two of reflection I am still not sure what I feel about the book and I am thus stumped when someone asks me how I would rate this book (and not liking to rank a book as I believe most books are much more than their ratings). I was interested to...

from Linyarai

I wouldn't consider this a story about the war at all, to me it was more about the characters and the relationships between them. I didn't love the ending, I felt I was left with a lot of questions and everything just drifted off. There was no real conclusion.

from thewanderingjew

The book is an easy read, although the timeline and tale move back and forth when one or another character is highlighted and it sometimes caused confusion, but as the story continued, it soon became clearer. The important characters are Asa, Helen, John, Tabitha and Moll. Asa seemed to be a bitt...

from nbmars

This story takes place between 1771 and 1794 in the small coastal town of Beaufort, North Carolina. It chronicles the very harsh lives of three generations beginning with Tabitha, the granddaughter, and going back in time to Helen the mother, and Asa, the grandfather. Helen's slave Moll also figu...