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Enjoyable, well-told story. Alice Hoffman's beautiful writing made the story flow.

Enjoy! RABCK, One Word Title, and ABC Read and Release release challenges 2015

This very kind RABCK from booklady331 arrived today. Thank you so much!!!!

This was a quick read and mostly a good one. The subject matter is dark: the systematic genocide of Jews who were posing as Christians in Spain in the year 1500.

I enjoy Hoffman's writing and she kept the story moving at a good pace, but something about the writing left me feeling slightly detached from the experiences of the narrator. In some books, I feel as though I come to intimately understand the characters' reality, but that wasn't quite the case here.

Still, this is a book that many readers of a wide range of ages would enjoy, I think.

Thank you, booklady331, for the RABCK!

I am going to head out cycling in a bit and plan to leave this book somewhere along the trail.