Jesika D. reviewed on 7/27/2009

The book does a good job of feeling accurate and feasible as a historic fiction, but lacks intimacy with the characters. As much as we are exposed to them through the book, they still feel distant.

Much of it is written as summaries; summaries of events, summaries of thought processes. The emotions of the main character are only mentioned when absolutely necessary, and they are not really shown in their raw form except for a few rare moments. Instead it feels that the author took the story's ties to the woman's rights movement and apply a sterilized version of the woman. She is almost too logical, too methodical, and as a result comes off as lacking passion or spontaneity. She seems unable to open up to her own emotions.

I want the book and its look at the characters to be a more personal experience than I received.

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