Pat Bourke

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Yesterday's Dead was a fast, good read packed with good characters, story development, and some early 20th century flu dread. Bourke's language is clean and crisp and her characters are three-dimensional. The whole kitchen set up reminded me a bit of Downton Abbey's Daisy and Mrs.Potts and the rich-house-turned-hospital added to that effect. I think that the story has a lot for the age group it is aiming for (10-13, the back says): responsibility, learning to move through anger and frustration, and death. All in all, recommended for a few hours of good story telling.… (meer)

"...I finished this book in one night, and again, I definitely liked it. The only other book I really remember reading that mentions the Spanish Influenza was Twilight, when Edward explains to Bella about the end of his human life. Bourke gives us a lot more to go on, as far as better understanding the extent of what this illness meant for the people in the midst of the outbreak. I've had the flu before, but this sounds a bit more awful, I think. I think I would have really enjoyed this book if I'd read it when I was younger, as well; I've always liked historical fiction, and with Meredith's story, Bourke covers a topic that isn't touched on as much for the main plot in a novel, so that's always welcome, I think."

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