Susan Cooper can do no wrong, and Miles Standish was a jerk. This book wasn't much like my much-beloved Dark Is Rising sequence (seriously, go read that!), but that's a good thing. Instead, she gives us a gripping historical fiction about a native american boy named Little Hawk who grew up just ...
Urghh! What a mess of what could have been a good book. It's impossible to explain in detail without spoilers, so suffice to say that it's a structural mess that detracts from a tale of Puritan hypocrisy in American Colonial days that could have had a pleasing symmetry reminiscent of Alan Garner.
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