Review: True to Life and Romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 16, 2013
“From the Chrysalis” is a love story between a man wrongly convicted of manslaughter and his cousin the innocent Liza. Set in Canada during the prison riots of the 1970s, author Karen Black’s historical romance has a gritty underside that will grab you and keep you reading well into the night. A cross between Grisham and Hart, this is a page-turner.The characters are well conceived and authentic. Naive Liza who spends more time with books than people and angry, disillusioned Dace are both outcasts in society––it’s what draws them together. I ached for Liza when Dace was sent to prison and felt like I was living through the prison riot, which was written about the true-life Kingston Riot of 1971. This is a thrilling tale of incest, drugs and ex-cons. How can you go wrong?I really enjoyed this gritty historical romance/legal drama. I was caught from page one and couldn’t put the book down.