48 HBC #5
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
time spent reading... 4 1/2 hours
time spent blogging... 12 min
I am ending on a high note. This is my favorite book of all the ones I read this weekend. I loved it. Romance, crazy Puritans, witch trials, history, romance. Kit from Barbados has recently lost her grandfather, and having no other immediate family members boards a ship headed for Connecticut, to an aunt's she has never met and who is unaware of her visit. Kit is like a colorful peacock that sticks out amongst gray pigeons in Puritan New England. She shocks the natives over and over again. She can swim and read and oh, that "witch" at the outskirts of town? a wonderful new friend! A couple of chapters devoted to the witch trial reminded me of the insanity also seen in The Crucible. This story, however, does everything a good book should. It was fun, worrisome, irksome, sweet, funny, and had a very happy ending. What more could a girl want?
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