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(More customer reviews)It would be hard to add anything to the previous reviews, but I will say I just finished reading this book for the third (at least) time, and it was just as enjoyable as the very first. As I get older, this is the kind of story I gravitate towards: yes, deep literary fiction detailing the dichotomy of our times or our hidden social ills is all very well, but sometimes you just want a STORY to curl up with, dive into, and lose yourself in. That's what "Hope" offers. It's full of captivating, fleshed-out characters and the places the author takes us are vividly well-drawn.
There simply is no downside to this book. It's a page-turner that you'll hate to see end. Perhaps a sequel will be written, hint hint. Enjoy!
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Hope, who has always craved adventure, is abducted from her Cornwall, England home in the early 1850s and taken to Gold Rush San Francisco. She escapes her kidnapper and lives with the California Indians for a year. She travels the Pacific Northwest with a mountain man, is attacked by a wolverine, and eventually creates a life in Victoria, on Vancouver Island. This story also follows Hope's friend, Ian, who leaves Cornwall to search for her until he's convinced she's burned to death in a fire. He becomes embroiled in the San Francisco underworld, determined to avenge her death. Life aboard ship, and with the Indians, as well as with Micah, the trapper, transforms Hope into "a woman to reckon with."
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