![]() ![]() ![]() Becca is sent to the Shippens to care for their beautiful and spoiled youngest daughter, Peggy, and at the same time to develop the polish that she would once have received in finishing school, which she can no longer afford to attend. There Becca's mother married a good-for-nothing man who drained what was left of her meager resources so that she had to supplement their farm's income by sewing for the fine ladies of Philadelphia. Becca's father had been a successful silversmith before he fell on hard times and then died, leaving his family to fend for themselves in the country. In 1778 Rebecca Syng, the teenager who narrates this story, is sent to be a lady's maid in the Shippen household in Philadelphia. ![]()
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If I had to describe this book in one word, it would be "cringey."īear in mind all quotations from this uncorrected proof could possibly change once the book goes on sale June 1st. ![]() ![]() I didn't enjoy this book - it gets 2 stars from me because I was able to finish it. Edgmon says in the author's note, "Writing this book was a healing experience for me." But I have to be honest about my feelings - after all, I got this advanced reader copy for the purpose of providing an honest review. I know the author worked very hard on this story. The last time I did was for The Luminous Dead. I hate giving such a low score to a debut novel. ![]() I could have critiqued the weak, nearly non-existent development of the story's themes gone further with more examples of the flat worldbuilding explained how the book barely belongs to the genre of fantasy and more. There is just so much I left out of this review. This is actually the book that changed my policy regarding 1 star reviews. Therefore, I decided to lower my score from 2 stars to 1. ![]() EDIT: This book is like an STD - it stays with you long after you are done. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her schoolteacher mother read to her every night. Trisha, the littlest girl in the family, grew up loving books. The little girl answered, "Sweet!" Then all of the family said in a single voice, "Yes, and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book!" The little girl knew that the promise to read was at last hers. "Taste!" She dipped her finger into the honey and put it into her mouth. "I did this for your mother, your uncles, your older brother, and now you!" Then he handed the book to her. The grandpa held the jar of honey so that all the family could see, then dipped a ladle into it and drizzled honey on the cover of a small book. Falker." She begins with a special introduction, a prologue. She's the author and illustrator of a wonderful book, called "Thank you, Mr. Everybody knows that honey is delicious in tea, but can you imagine pouring it on a book? Well Patricia Polacco can. Welcome to the Screen Actors Guild Foundation BookPals. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Elias gets a chance to get off the streets, he quite rightly jumps at it. There's someone at the beginning who helps him survive his first days on the streets, and tries to teach him survival skills for living in the streets. I have one additional complaint about Elias' story. (Witches were not burned alive in England Catholic priests released from their vows retain the power to perform the sacraments.) On the other hand, each contains an obvious mistake about an easily checked background detail. One story is fantasy the other is mainstream mimetic fiction. One succeeds in defeating the evil that oppresses them the other can only defeat it in spirit. One is severely let down by adopted family every important member of the other's adopted family stands firm. The motivations of the parental units are different, their actions are different, the responses of Eliza and Elias are different, and the outcomes are different. I don't, though, see the close parallels between them that Kerr says in an afterword motivated her, beyond a rather tenuous theme of "what's family". They're both interesting, compelling stories, and I enjoyed both them. ![]() Kerr tells two stories in alternating chapters, the story of Eliza, in the seventeenth century, whose stepmother has enchanted her eleven brothers so that they are swans by day and men only by night, and the story of Elias, in the early eighties in New York, whose parents have kicked him out. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1972 Jane completed her secondary study at the Kettering High School for Girls. 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