I thought the author did a good job of sticking with the point of view chosen by having the daughter be the narrator. Unfortunately, I thought this created one of the real weaknesses of the book - a number of questions I had, and which I thought were the really interesting questions, were never ans...
I finished The Heretic's Daughter byKathleen Kent. Great book. I am giving it four stars. This book follows the Carrier family through the Salem Witch trials. The main character is the daughter of Martha Carrier, who is an actual person who was hanged as a witch during the trials. It was very intere...
The Heretic's Daughter is the telling of a family's experience with the Salem witch hunt. The physical and psychological implications of false accusations against a mother and her children. The first half of the novel introduces the reader to the family and their daily lives. We grow to care for t...
I'm only about 50 pages into this so far, but I already really like it. I haven't read enough to really understand how the storyline will fit into the Salem witch trials, but the characters in this book are well-written. I love a book that lets you get right into the main character's head from the g...
As a direct descendant of Martha Carrier, when I saw some great reviews of this fictionalized account of her family's ordeal in the witch trials, I felt I simply had to read it.The author has beautifully woven together family history/legend and the facts of the witch trials. She has created a fascin...
An outstanding first novel. Kathleen Kent is a direct descendant of Martha Carrier, the novel's heroine who was hanged in 1692 at the height of the Salem witch trials. Kent spent five years researching and writing this novel of her heritage, and the result is exceptional. The prose is solid and ...
I really enjoyed this. It was well written and seemed historically accurate. I had trouble putting it down, in spite of the fact that some parts of it were very disturbing to read, such as the conditions in the jail where the accused witches were kept.
So much has been written about the Salem witch trials that the first question any new book has to answer is "what does this book add?" And so many of those books are written for children or teens that I was interested to see how the material would be treated differently in a work for adults. As it t...
during some passages of the heretic's daughter, tears rolled down my face. the harshest of lives, i'm not sure i could've survived it. i loved the writing, such wonderful metaphors described such horrible times. i liked the character of sarah a lot, and until about half way through the novel, had...
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