Review: Womanly pioneering at its best!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2013
This book highlights the oppression of women in the early 1900s.  Set in the small Adirondack town of Muller's Corners, Melanie Daniels was a forlorn country girl, unfortunate in her luck of being the daughter of "the killer doc".  Her town scorns her name, and she reluctantly begins to accept her fate of life as an old maid.  Despite her situation, she longs for companionship, and it finds her in the form of a tall, dark, and handsome stranger.  With simple trust and a desperate desire to leave, Melanie finally arrives in New York City; but it's not as glamorous as she had expected, and her company even less so...A page turner for sure, this story will have you both thankful for progression, and longing for a simpler time.  DeCarlo portrays her characters with the appropriate integrity of the 1900s, and bewitches us with their avant-garde indulgences.  There's just something insatiably thrilling with reading a woman's story of ascendancy against all opposition, in a time most unforgiving of such notions.Highly recommended for those with an interest in life "behind the scenes" in the early 20th century.