Rating: Summary: Get from the the library Review: I would not recommend spending money on this book. If you wish to continue the series, get the book from the library. The main characters are not likable or believable.
Rating: Summary: Get from the the library Review: I would not recommend spending money on this book. If you wish to continue the series, get the book from the library. The main characters are not likable or believable.
Rating: Summary: YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW DISAPPOINTED I AM Review: Since summer started I've been catching up on all the books I've wanted to read yet hadn't because I was too busy. One of the authors I've been reading alot by is Ann Rinaldi. She is a great author and almost all her books are awesome! Some of my favorites are 'Last Silk Dress', 'In My Father's House' and 'A Stich in Time' first prequel of this book. When I say almost all her books are awesome, I mean that I've greatly enjoyed all her books except this one... a great disappointment. I had just finished 'A Stich In Time', the first book in this trilogy. It was awesome!! The loved the characters, the character developement was great and I couldn't get enough. When I started getting close to the end I even started to read slower so that it wouldn't end as fast. I quickly looked to 'Broken Days' and hoped that it would be just as enjoyable. First off, I was disappointed that so much time had passed between this book and the last. There were many unanswered questions, much more plot to continue. In 'Broken Days' only 2 out of the 6 main characters were tolerable. The rest had either had their complete personality changed or became idiots. Only two people made the book readable(compared to the prequel), the main character Ebie and her cousin Jemmy. Jemmy was neither given a big or long part in the book... too bad. The other main character, a half-indian half-white, supposedly daughter of a long lost sister is just annoying. For some reason everybody took to her and everything she did seemed to be good. I think Ebie should've kicked her butt. Ebie's thoughts, her personality, the dialogs between her and others is the only think that is keeping me from giving a lower review. I am incredibly disapointed. I really did not expect one of my favorite writers to have writen something like this, especially after starting such a great story line.As always the Chelmsford family is disastrous state. A half Shawnee girl, Walking Breeze has come to the family claiming to be the daughter of their long lost sister Thankful. Thankful, kidnapped 22 years ago was the only person the ego posessed, cold, very disturbed, Nathaniel Chelmsford.. The grandfather of Ebie. Ebie... having the totally messed up life of having her parents divorced at an early age, taken with her mother when her parents divorced, taken back to her aunt's house by her dad, having her dad always gone and and family torn assunder, wants the love her grandfather is barely giving to not be threatened by Walking Breeze. The family's so messed up already, I didn't really think she could make it any worse, but everything can always get worse. If you're looking a book to curl up with, to entrance you into not putting it down, that keeps you wanting to turn the pages, look somewhere else. Don't buy this book... it's not worth it. Try reading 'A Stich in Time' or some other book. Still, if you really want to and if you were reading this trilogy and didn't want to stop, don't expect much, and don't say I didn't warn you. P.S. Sorry this was so long
Rating: Summary: A GREAT BOOK THAT YOU SHOULD READ Review: This book is about a girl named Ebie who when her cousin Walking Breeze who is half Indian comes Ebie tries to make everybody think that Walking Breeze is a intruder not part of the family. it is a very touching book and if you like to curl up near a fire, sit in an easy chair, read in a raft in a pool, etc. to read this is the book for you. And I swear if your in a hard chair once you get to a intresting part of the book the chair will feel softer.
Rating: Summary: This book was a good view of a Native Americans in N.England Review: This book was a very vivid desription of a young Native American girl who was forced to leave all that she knew behind to find her mother's family. She may never see her past again. I enjoyed this book because I felt as though I knew Walking Breeze as a dear friend. Her problems were very realistic for the time period.
Rating: Summary: A Step Back in Time!!!!!!!! Review: This book was awesome. You should read a stitch in time first. The whole idea of the book was really cool. This is definite must to read. If you love historical fiction this is the book for you.
Rating: Summary: A terrific companion to a terrific first book!! Review: This book was great! It's amazing how Rinaldi was able to continue a book that was terrific alone without ruining the first one's depth and emotion. I loved it, and I'm sure anyone who read the first one will love it too!
Rating: Summary: Not as good as I'm used to. Review: This book was okay but I did not like it as well as A Stitch In Time. In this book Hannah the main character I had grown to love in A Stitch In Time becomes less likable, she is stern and strict instead of kind and loving, and she had yet to marry Richard Lander who she was betrothed to in the previos book which took place many years earlier. The main character is Ebie, Cabot's daughter, she dislikes Hannah and tries to keep Walking Breeze from proving she is a member of the family. It took me several times reading it to convince myself she might be likable. I think one large problem with this book is the romance that I've come to love in her books is not present, although Ebie does have a crush on a boy their realationship does not develope like Oscie and Thomas's in In My Fathers House, or Hannah and Richard's. Although I would recomend this book to anyone who read A Stitch In Time I would recomend borrowing it from a library instead of buying it.
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