katherine howe – Cannonball Read 17

Maybe pick one story and tell it well?

A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself: A Novel by Katherine Howe

April 9, 2025 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

A True Account is actually two stories. One is set in Cambridge Massachusetts, circa 1930, with Radcliffe College professor Marian Beresford and her undergraduate student Kay Lonergan. Kay has found a manuscript by a female pirate named Hannah Masury. The second story is how in 1726 Hannah went from being a common serving girl in Boston to part of a pirate crew looking for a buried treasure. Author Katherine Howe provides an enormous amount of fascinating information about pirates and life in the colonies in […]

The end ruined it for me

The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe

March 21, 2021 by Ellesfena 2 Comments

Series: The Physick Book. I read Book One (The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane) in 2009. What I remembered about this series prior to reading this book: I had gotten this series completely mixed up with the Deborah Harkness series, which was rather unfair to these books. While I didn’t love this, it’s certainly better than the All Souls trilogy. Because I had it mixed up with another series, it turned out I didn’t actually remember anything about the first book when I picked this […]

Maybe I Should Have Started With Book #1

The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs by Katherine Howe

September 24, 2019 by Classic 2 Comments

I am always leery when I am told that I don’t have to start off with the first book in a series since they can be both read as standalones. I ended up being a little bit lost since there are references to events that happened before. Also, I had a hard time feeling engaged with the protagonist, Connie Goodwin. I thought she was selfish and her not telling her long term boyfriend Sam about what was going on was confusing as anything to me. […]

The witches deserved a better story

December 29, 2016 by yesknopemaybe 2 Comments

Is it just me or are mediocre books the hardest to review? This book was a perfectly fine way to spend a few evenings, but it didn’t leave a lasting impression. I guess based on the premise I expected it to be darker and more sinister. Instead, I got a bit of witch fluff. Connie Goodwin is a grad student at Harvard studying history. She’s especially interested in the Salem witch trials. Plot machinations make it so she has to go stay at her family’s […]

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