by Kathleen Kent
This is the second book of Kathleen Kent's that I've read, and I'm definitely a fan. This I guess is a prequel to The Heretic's Daughter: A Novel - Kathleen Kent and is loosely based off her family history and local Massachusetts historical lore. I found it to be a gripping, believable account, a...
Originally titled, The Wolves of Andover, The Traitor's Wife is a prequel to The Heretic's Daughter. The new title is more befitting since the wolves are a minor detail throughout the story. This is the story of Martha Allen and her romance with Thomas Carrier during colonial times in the newly c...
The Traitor's Wife is not only a fantastic story, but the legend behind the story is what made me want to read it in the first place. With roots that went back to the Salem Witch Trials, Kathleen Kent pens an amazing account of how her generations before grandparents met. It is their love story and ...
I can't believe how much I enjoyed this book. It is historical fiction and the prequel to The Heretic's Daughter, but I thought the book was much more than that! It was dark and the characters were somewhat mysterious in my view and the author was masterful at pulling this off..Alot aren't! I enjoye...
DNF page 143I was so bored, couldn't care less what happened to anyone and didn't understand how the stories were connected.
I wanted to love this book. That’s not to say that I didn’t like it, because I did, but I wanted to adore it because it was set in early America, which is my favorite time period and why I’m specializing in early American literature in my PhD program (tidbits about me, yay!). I was, however, a littl...
Boy meets girl, 17th-Century style. This is the story of how Thomas and Martha Carrier met, fell in love, and married. If you've read The Heretic's Daughter, you know they didn't quite live happily ever after, but that's twenty years down the road from The Wolves of Andover. A little brush-up on E...