Review: I think I have a crush on the author.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2012
Zoe Saadia already had my heart with her last historical fiction about Pre-Columbian Native Americans. Now she's out done herself with At Road's End, and I'm more in love with her writing than ever before.At Road's End is so many things. It's a skillful romance where there are so many things coming between the two players. Differing cultures, having homes far away from each other and having very different outlooks on life.It's a great book about the life of the different populations of Native Americans. This is a walk around there world where the characters are people, not the caricatures that we're used to seeing on documentaries and in the media.One thing that I love that Saadia does, is that she makes the main character an outsider, but an outsider that is Other to us as well. We learn about him, and the others, through their reaction to what they're seeing. This way there's a lot more showing and a lot less telling.I also love the way that the history flows with the book. This is not the sort of historical novel that is full of block of explanatory text. There's enough story and writing to grease everything along so it reads smooth.Love it. Two thumbs and two big toes up. Read it!!