Into The Wilderness - Sara Donati
Unedited Thoughts - This is part of my unedited thoughts series.
The period that this was set in made me very excited, as did the setting. I am a big fan of early frontier life. Then the appearance of ‘Hawkeye’ intrigued me. I did a quick google to find out if it was who I thought it was.
Yep, this was one of my favourite characters ever, Hawkeye from Last of the Mohican’s fame – brought to life by none other than Daniel Day Lewis. I love that film but haven’t read the original stories. I was interested to learn that Donati had pretty much created a fan fiction here set much later in Hawkeye’s life – and 100 years after the original was published.
The main characters looked like they were going to be Hawkeye’s son and the newly arrived, daughter of the local judge. It quickly became clear that this was going to be a story about: women’s rights; slavery; and racial inequality. All of this was likely to be wrapped up in a romance. Not really my cup of tea. While I think all of this topics are important and need and should be be discussed I read to escape and, as I said not generally a huge fan of romance.
I only ever give a book three chapters to hook me in. This one didn’t so its off to the donation bin.
