Helpful Score: 6
This book was about 2 women's lives that paralell each other in present time and in the 1600's. It described something I knew very little about, white slavery and the Pirates of Morocco. The storyline also included some interesting facts about embroidery, as the link between times was a priceless book of patterns from the past. Our bookclub just reviewed it and we all enjoyed it.It was light reading and kept our interest. we all gave it a 4/5.
Helpful Score: 2
I absolutely loved this book. It was hard to put down. I love a book were you actually learn something about history and have an amazing story to go along with it!
Helpful Score: 2
I was intrigued and held captive by this wonderful book. The plot and character development will keep anyone's interest throughtout this page-turner. It is about a girl who meets her loser lover for dinner so he can ofically dump her. He gives her a book on embroidery that changes her life. It is a story of a women in present time that alternates with a young women in the 16th century. I could not put this book down and grudgingly did just to make dinner....read it through the night and then was sorry when I finished it. A wonderful, unforgetable story...a book so good I kept it and will not give it up.
Historical with fantasy overtones. When a young Cornish woman is given an antique book of 17th-century embroidery patterns, she is astonished to find it also contains journal notations from the book's original owner. The story alternates between contemporary times and a harrowing tale of pirates, kidnapping, and peril. For all of that, it just never made an emotional connection for me.
This was such a satisfying book - I loved it. Two women - centuries apart, yet so similar. This is a love story, an adventurous epic of a novel. Just beautiful.
I really enjoyed this read. I like novels based on historical fact. It is a mystery about an old book of embroidery patterns from the early 1600's, that has secrets in the pages of times long past. Two books were bought, one as a gift and another to keep buy the purchaser. The wrong book was given as a gift, the valuable book with the secrets. This was a very hard read to put down once started and it left me with a smile on my face when i finished. I did well with choosing this book. Alot of interesting info in this story.
Following two plotlines, the stories separated by centuries, this book draws together two women, their common bond a love for embroidery. There was a lot more meat to this story than I expected and some surprising twists.
