Review: A Weaver's Web
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2014
A Weaver’s Web by Chris Pearce is a four hundred and one page family saga written in third person, present tense. It has nineteen chapters, no titles, just numbers. The story unfolds in eighteen sixteen, well in the outskirts of town, in a valley and rundown workshop of weaver Henry and Sarah Wakefield. It is a sweeping story of the Wakefield’s rise from extreme poverty. The way the family dynamic evolves and how they emotionally learn to live with the choices that they make was a nice, steady change throughout the book. I really enjoyed the character growth and became invested in several different characters journey.I do believe that Pearce indulged with description and character internalizations. To me, the book would have read smoother if it had a good edit and was cut by at least fifty to seventy-five pages. I would have given the story five stars but I really did enjoy the story when it moved forward through the dialogue.