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Many Sparrows by Lori Benton isn’t one of my favorite historical fiction books that I have read in the past year or so. I had a tough time getting into the book, and I also had a hard time wanting to read this book. I found that when I would put it down that, I wouldn’t go right back to it. I read several other books while I was reading this one which isn’t something that I usually do. I think my biggest problem was how slow this book seemed to go. There were quite a few places that I wondered why they didn’t cut them out. I felt bad for Clare throughout the book because of all of the horrible things that she had to go through. I know that they only reason I kept reading what because I wanted to know what going to happen to Clare and how things were going to turn out for her. If you love historical fiction novels than I would pick this book up or at least read other reviews to see if it would be a right for you. If you have read this book what did you think of it?
About The Book
Either she and her children would emerge from that wilderness together, or none of them would. . . .
In 1774, the Ohio-Kentucky frontier pulses with rising tension and brutal conflicts as Colonists push westward and encroach upon Native American territories. The young Inglesby family is making the perilous journey west when an accident sends Philip back to Redstone Fort for help, forcing him to leave his pregnant wife Clare and their four-year old son Jacob on a remote mountain trail.
When Philip does not return and Jacob disappears from the wagon under the cover of darkness, Clare awakens the next morning to find herself utterly alone, in labor and wondering how she can to recover her son . . . especially when her second child is moments away from being born.
Clare will face the greatest fight of her life, as she struggles to reclaim her son from the Shawnee Indians now holding him captive. But with the battle lines sharply drawn, Jacob’s life might not be the only one at stake. When frontiersman Jeremiah Ring comes to her aid, can the stranger convince Clare that recovering her son will require the very thing her anguished heart is unwilling to do-be still, wait and let God fight this battle for them?
About The Author
Lori Benton was raised east of the Appalachian Mountains, surrounded by early American history going back three hundred years. Her novels transport readers to the eighteenth century, where she brings to life the Colonial and early Federal periods of American history. When she isn’t writing, reading, or researching, Lori enjoys exploring and photographing the Oregon wilderness with her husband. She is the author of “Burning Sky,” recipient of three Christy Awards, “The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn,” Christy-nominee “The Wood’s Edge,” and “A Flight of Arrows.”
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