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Bezig met laden... Seven for a Secret (A Timothy Wilde Novel Book 2) (origineel 2013; editie 2013)door Lyndsay Faye (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkSeven for a Secret door Lyndsay Faye (2013)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is the second in Faye's "copper star" series featuring Timothy Wilde and his wilder older brother Val, two of the first officers of the NYPD (when it was not yet called that) in the early 19th century. The historical aspects of these stories are gripping, grim and enlightening if not uplifting. Tim feels himself overmatched and under-appreciated by his brother, a brilliant complicated man with powerful connections and unsavory habits. In a very different milieu, Tim occasionally plays Watson to Val's Sherlock, but more often plays Sherlock to Val's Mycroft, though it's the elder brother who dabbles excessively in laudanum and "hemp weed". I find Tim a bit tiresome after a couple hundred pages; he needs to gain a bit of self-confidence, but he also needs to stop opposing his brother's advice just because of its source. This story involved the practice of kidnapping free people of color and selling them South into slavery; it's a heart-breaker, but it needed tightening up. It just took much too long and too many words to get to the conclusion. Excellent narration and a good entry in this story of the beginnings of the NYC police force, known as the Copper Stars. Slave catchers are a danger to all persons of color, including ones that have their free status appropriately documented. A kidnapping turns into murder and the significant involvement of Timothy and brother Val in thwarting these egregious assaults on personal freedoms which are rampant in the class, ethnic and racial strata of this pre Civil War Era. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Timothy Wilde (2) Prijzen
New York, 1846. Lucy Adams, een beeldschone mulattin, valt op een avond het kantoor binnen van rechercheur Timothy Wilde. Haar dierbaren, vrije zwarten, zijn gekidnapt, waarschijnlijk door slavenhandelaars. Wilde daalt af in de New Yorkse onderwereld met de hulp van zijn verslaafde broer Valentine. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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The down sides here are that as a new copper star in New York, Timothy Wilde is seeing the worst the world can offer, from child prostitution to slave catching, and all the machinations of the political machines. Which is frankly really tough reading. I don't doubt a word of it is based on true stories, and it just hits too hard. It leaves me with too powerful a sorrow to want to read further. So well done for being a writer who can get your poignant history across. I'm sorry I don't have the stomach for it. ( )