Homestead, a book of short stories written under the pseudonym Rosina Lippi Green, was published by Delphinium. (Aug.) FYI: This novel is Donati's debut under her own name. ![]() The many subplots are skillfully interwoven, and the author's sheer stamina commands respect but the novel is complicated, not complex, overstuffed with familiar, featherweight themes. Into the Wilderness book by Sara Donati Romance Books > Romantic Historical Books ISBN: 0553578529 Into the Wilderness (Book 1 in the Wilderness Series) by Sara Donati See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 22.69 - 25.49 Paperback 6.79 - 16.66 Mass Market Paperback 3.99 - 4. Nathaniel is the only thoroughly admirable white male in the huge cast-upbringing having triumphed over blood-and no person of color has flaws. Worse, the characters are color-by-numbers cartoons. While most full-length historical romance novels total around 120,000 words (give or take), Into The Wilderness is a whopping 355,000 words (give or take), making it 3-times longer than the average romance you will read this month. Then the charm falters as their adventures are padded with details that embroider without embellishing. It is on characters introduced in The Last of the Mohicans that Sara Donati has based her ambitious first novel. At first they are an enchanting couple, shooting at bad guys and making athletic love in unlikely woodsy settings. Nathaniel wants Judge Middleton's land, too, for his adoptive people-but, unlike Todd, he also wants Lizzie for herself. One look at rugged Nathaniel Bonner, a Scotsman raised by Mohawks (they call him Between-Two-Lives), and Lizzie scuttles her feminist disdain for marriage and her father's calculations. Richard Todd and fulfill both men's ambitions for property. When Elizabeth Middleton, a proud spinster of 29, arrives in upstate Paradise, N.Y., after a sheltered life in England with her titled aunt, she means to live with her father, Alfred, a judge, and her wastrel brother, Julian, and teach school. Alas, Donati offers less wit and more cant than her celebrated precursor in a hefty volume that is politically correct to a fare-thee-well, suggesting that the author hoped single-handedly to reverse all race and gender bias. Claire Fraser, Gabaldon's time-traveling physician heroine, even makes a cameo appearance as a battlefield surgeon. Epic in ambition, heaving-bosomed and lavish with pioneer life, Donati's debut inevitably invites comparison to the Revolutionary War-era romances of Diana Gabaldon.
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