2 stars
I...really didn't like this book. First off, I accidentally put this on my queue of books to read at the public library. I was actually keeping it there to remind myself to check out the first book in the trilogy (this is the second). Somehow, it got put in my stash of books so I read it anyway.
Historically speaking, it's ok. The characters are young Quakers who are persecuted in the 17th century. The second book starts off in the middle of a courtship carried on through the letters of Susanna and Will, having only seen each other twice. Will was imprisoned in the first book and was just getting out when this book starts up. He heads off to London to find work, which he finds, but he also finds the bubonic plague and he himself gets thrown in jail and gets sick with ague.
Susanna and Will seem to have a Romeo-Juliet romance going on. His father is against their romance and all Quakers to boot, Susanna is far away from London, Will loses his job, plague kills 100,000+ people, etc. Susanna comes to London, and after a brief misunderstanding, they ahem, 'rekindle' their romance, and sleep together.
As a Christian, this is appalling and exactly why I don't like going into the Teen section of either the Library or Barnes and Nobles. Why do authors feel the need to put this in books? Do they want kids to have sex thrown in their face every which way they turn?
I'm not saying it never happened. Two young Quakers barely in their twenties, in love and anxious to be married, alone in his room, sure, it could have happened. But must our daughters know about it? Is there nothing sacred?
The topics this book brings up are persecuted church of the Quakers, the plague, the great fire of London, and unrequited love.
Writing: 3 out of 5
Morals: 2.5 out of 5
Plot: 3 out of 5
From a Christian's view point, this book is a pass.
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