I always love to read Jane Kirkpatrick,
but this book was not one of my favorites by a long stretch. We moped
with the main character through 90% of the book before anything good happened,
and then BOOM! It was over.
Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken
hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother
of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her impulsive
husband wants them to make a new start in another territory, which will mean
leaving her beloved home and her departed mother's grave--and returning to the
land of her captivity. Eliza longs to know how her mother, an early missionary
to the Nez Perce Indians, dealt with the challenges of life with a sometimes
difficult husband and with her daughter's captivity. When Eliza is finally
given her mother's diary, she is stunned to find that her own memories are not
necessarily the whole story of what happened. Can she lay the dark past to rest
and move on? Or will her childhood memories always hold her hostage? (photo and description from Amazon)
Here's hoping the next book will be better!
O:)
Melissa
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