Inglis Fletcher (1879–1969)

Shallow. It's a brief book, with a large font and double-spaced leading, and its coverage of topics and characters is just as perfunctory. All the exciting events take place off-stage. As history it is uninformative, just lots of white male landowners sitting around talking and signing things, none of which is ever really clear in practical application. Nor is it especially good as romance, since much of the wooing takes place off-stage and all of the weddings.

The best I can say for this one is "inoffensive", and that's only if the reader doesn't mind a heaping helping of sexism, classism, racism, and stereotypes. What I can't abide is that there are incidents with pirates, but they're never given a scene. For those who care, there is a late-breaking show of Christian faith.

Library copy

[Just in case you were wondering, my grandmother's copies are a little too delicate for reading]… (más)