Daughter Of Fortune
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780917657238 (0917657233)
Publish date: 1985
Publisher: Dutton Books
Pages no: 316
Edition language: English
Die-hard Kelly fans may want to read this, her first published novel, but it's not like her later romance novels. The setting is interesting--we usually don't find historical fiction set in the 17th C. US Southwest--but it's more women's fiction or straight historical than it is a historical romance...
4/5; 4 stars; A-Carla Kelly always teaches me some history in her books. This book is pretty dark in a lot of ways and leaves no doubt in the reader's mind that life was very hard in the 1600s in the southwest. Kelly manages to tell the history with empathy towards all points of view; the settlers...