Review: Historical Detail
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 26, 2012
This is a "running-away-to-join-the-circus" book meant for adults but suitable for an older YA audience. I was captivated by the story and the Roma details, although I think it would have worked better set in a later time period.  A historical novel must remain true to historical fact.  I would have given this book five stars but I was stopped too many times asking such questions as whether there was cotton candy in 1843, whether inhaling laudanum on gauze would cause unconsciousness, and whether a true Gypsy woman's mother would have been named Sheila.