Title: Not a sequel!
Product review: Sorry, I am just too skeptical, but this book is *not* a sequel to James Fenimore Cooper's novel. It's more a sequel to the movie of the same name which starred Daniel Day-Lewis and which depicted a completely different story from the novel. Donati invents a marriage between Hawkeye (whose name in the novel is Nathaniel "Natty" Bummpo--a.k.a. "La Longue Carabine" and "Hawkeye"--not Daniel Bonner...) and Cora Munro (who DIES in the novel...therefore could not be a mother to anyone!), and invents them a son as the hero for her tale. I suppose the book is OK in and of itself, but it shouldn't be billed as a sequel to Cooper. I'm not sure why she made use of Cooper at all--which is the same thing I always wondered about the Day-Lewis film. If you're going to depart substantially from an earlier author's work, why not depart completely?
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