so-soLove the taut, straightforward prose & unpredictable plot. 18-year-old Maud, living on an allotment parcel in Oklahoma in 1928, watching for snakes, baking biscuits, dreaming of electric lights & city life. Beautifully evoked, rich setting. But ugh the ending—tacked on, rushed & phony—strong, stubborn Maud “saved” by the city boy. Family, community, land, feuds, Creek & Cherokee nation. 2015
pickSome historical overlap that I first learned about while reading Killers Of The Moon Flower (David Grann) but with classic Lisa Wingate dual timelines perfection.
pickThis thriller was really powerful and so compulsively paced, I couldn‘t put it down. This was a new author for me, I believe a debut, but you‘d never know it with the seamless way she crafted this story. An archeologist working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs is drawn into a mystery from her childhood that she thought she left behind. Set in Oklahoma and Rhode Island, this story was inspired by true events.
pickA solid dual-timeline mystery set in the Winding Stair National Park in Oklahoma.
panMeh. Admittedly, this isn't my kind of historical fiction at all, but I had a hard time caring about any of the historical sections and the dialogue at times read like the characters were quoting from a history book. It was heavy-handed in many ways, and I enjoyed the author's note much more than the rest of the book. I suspect that Lisa Wingate isn't an author for me.
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