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Originally Posted by Fbone
Doing a change-up for my next read. The Fiddler's Gun a self published novel by A.S. Peterson. It's about a spunky 17yo girl who becomes a sailor on the run from the Royal Navy. Setting is colonial America.
First impression not promising. The trade paperback is poor quality. Uneven pages and difficult to read small font. The author probably figured most people would buy the 99c Kindle version.
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And it got worse. Very inaccurate historical fiction. Women did not wear hoop skirts and bonnets in 1775 Georgia colony. They didn't say "ok." Orphans were not treated so well either. The orphanage was run by Methodist nuns who kept boys and girls in the same dorm to the age of 17. They ate three fabulous meals each day while the townspeople starved. The book's character says there are no British in the Savannah area yet we know the colony was established by 114 colonists from Britain in 1733. Were there really pirates still around off the US coast in the 1770s?
The book was full of cliches and plot inconsistencies. The book received almost all 5-star reviews. Unexplainable.
I left off after 32 pages so maybe it got better but I wasn't going to go after it. The author's strength is in military (particularly naval) themes.
Also, the book was written for very young adults. One point of interest, this was the first time I saw the word "shew" used.