Grace Elliot reviewed a book.
The Dovekeepers
“The Dovekeepers tells the story of four women and their fight for survival during the seige of Masada.
I bought the book after reading a review which rated it 5 stars (exceptional), and I had to debate long and hard between rating it a 4 or 5 star review.
The story is related from the...”
“The Dovekeepers tells the story of four women and their fight for survival during the seige of Masada.
I bought the book after reading a review which rated it 5 stars (exceptional), and I had to debate long and hard between rating it a 4 or 5 star review.
The story is related from the viewpoint of four women. Admittedly, I usually shy away from books broken into sections, each told by a different narrator, because if I'm involved with a character, I don't want to leave them behind. However, Ms Hoffman's skill is such that I was able to forget about the jump from character to character, especially as she eventually pulled all the threads together. Again, the seige of Masada is an event I am unfamiliar with and so it took me a little time to understand the background and the danger the characters were in, but the tension eventually built such that by the end of the book I was almost in tears.
You can generally tell if an historical fiction book is great or not, by whether it makes you want to find out more about the events portrayed - and this is the case with "the Dovekeepers." ”
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