Title: Contrived - neither well-written fiction, nor well-narrated history
Product review: I read this on the recommendation of a friend. We obviously have differing ideas of a good read. I finished the book, only because I need to justify the time invested in beginning the read. After the third "life or death" nail-biting situation in which Anna finds herself, with the book only half finished, I was sorely tempted to ditch the book and call the time spent a lesson learned. How "intrepid" can one character be before she's deemed to be stupid? The Civil Was portion of the narrative failed to engender sympathy for any of the characters and bordered on boring. By the end, the only characters I had any minor feeling for were the lesbian lighthouse keepers. The use of Anna's "discovery" of the dead from both narratives in the same spot felt as though Ms. Barr was bored as well and strove to just finish the thing up.
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