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A carregar... Where the Light Enters (edição 2019)por Sara Donati (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This second of two books in the Waverly Place duology is the continued saga of the Savard and Mezzanotte families in 1880s New York City and suburban New Jersey. I found it a little more contrived than the first book. It was murder mystery meets historical fiction meets social ills meets love story. It almost was too much. Nevertheless, still well-researched and well-written. ( ) "Where the light Enters" is a good read. I enjoyed reading about the early days of NYC as it grows in size. I enjoyed reading about women doctors during this time. The timeliness of abortion issues did not escape me.The mystery of disappearing and murdered women was intriguing. Still, I did not fall in love with the characters or the story completely. Perhaps its too big and too far flung. Women like Aunt Amelia and Aunt Quinlan were not believable to me as they took on mystic quallities that did not work.. Pretty sure there will be book # 3 and pretty sure I gave a similar review on book #1. Exceptional writing and story telling about the Gilded Age. This was a sequel to [The Gilded Hour], but it is also a stand alone novel. The carryover is that Sophie and Anna Savard are now living in New York City, both having made it through medical school. Within is contained a harrowing mystery. Great time period piece, although long. 672 pages Where the Light Enters - Donati 4 stars This book continues the 19th saga Donati began in The Gilded Hour. It’s the second book in a series spun off her generational Wilderness series. I’ve read only the first book of the earlier series, so I had some knowledge of the family connections. It wasn’t necessary to have read all of the previous series to follow the characters in this story. Donati supplies a complicated family tree for reference. The only essential feature of that family tree is that it is multiracial. The book is set in New York City in 1884. It revolves around the lives of the Savard cousins, Anna and Sophie. Both women are licensed physicians. Anna is white, married to Detective Sergeant Jack Mezzanotte. Sophie is black/American Indian and recently widowed. This book continues the mystery begun in the first book; the unexplained surgical murders of well-to-do women who sought illegal abortions. This is a feminist story. The historical content is well researched. Donati’s immersive descriptions of a clamoring, rapidly growing New York City are at least partly responsible for the length of this book. The political power of the Catholic Church and Anthony Comstock continue to threaten the professional integrity as well as the families of the female doctors. I’m sometimes annoyed with the level of soap opera in Donati’s plots. But, I can’t quarrel with the historical content or the thematic message concerning the history of female reproductive rights. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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HTML:From the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati's enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York Obstetrician Dr. Sophie Savard returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early spring of 1884 to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. With the help of Dr. Anna Savard, her dearest friend, cousin, and fellow physician she plans to continue her work aiding the disadvantaged women society would rather forget. As Sophie sets out to construct a new life for herself, Anna's husband, Detective-Sergeant Jack Mezzanotte calls on them both to consult on two new cases: the wife of a prominent banker has disappeared into thin air, and the corpse of a young woman is found with baffling wounds that suggest a killer is on the loose. In New York it seems that the advancement of women has brought out the worst in some men. Unable to ignore the plight of New York's less fortunate, these intrepid cousins draw on all resources to protect their patients. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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