Review: Good History, but Questionalble Characters
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2013
I gave this book three stars because the historical content seemed fairly accurate, but I cannot say the same about the rest of the book.This book started out believable enough, but the six year old child, Mary, running around with the gun, setting rabbit snares, administering medicine, crooning over a twenty-year old man, all the while clutching two dolls, that was totally unbelievable. Am I the only one who thought that was odd?Also, it seemed to me the length and events of the pregnancy kept changing. Emma felt the baby move, they went through the winter, Josiah spent over a month finding his mother to bring her back to help deliver Emma's child, and then Emma tells his mother she's about four month's along. How could that be possible?Emma appeared to be a whinny, weepy, zealous shrew. Mary acted like a spoiled brat. Josiah was insipidly needy. There was too much harmmmping and far too much weeping by everyone including the wild trappers. This just didn't seem plausible to me.This could have been a good read if the author had a more accurate portrayal of the characters. Possibly she was a very young author, and maybe that was the problem.