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Title: Great till the End
Review: Barnhardt does perhaps make the book a bit too long, but scholarly approach he takes is engaging. The footnotes were extremely fascinating and added, rather than detracted, from the novel. That said, I just did not buy Lucy's decision at the end of the book. Not so much that she made the decision, but rather the relative ease by which she made the decision. The character agonized over so many things, but this, one of the most important choices one could make, she appears to do it easily. And this is coming from a pro-choice reader. I can understand that Barnhardt wanted to make a statement about the issue, but he could have done so with more believability if he developed her character's decisionmaking further.
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