Katy - reviewed on 6/17/2009 + 80 more book reviews

I was nervous about this book after reading the less-than-stellar review of it, but decided to read it anyway, since it was already here.

I found it to be quite entertaining. I enjoyed the mystery and the characters. I'm a sucker for a good mystery, and although I had some of it figured out before the heroine did, there were some aspects of the mystery that surprised me.

I did find some of the sentence structures to be awkward, and found myself correcting them in my head as I read. I didn't think the big words were that strange for who the narrator was--an educated woman of some means--and I guess I just thought they fit the time period.

The one piece of factual information that bugged me the most was her comment on Benjamin Franklin being a Quaker, which he was not.

Anyway, for me, it turned out to be a fun, quick read. It wasn't the best historical fiction or mystery I've read, but it was enjoyable nonetheless.

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