The Vanishing Point by Mary Sharratt
Title: The Vanishing Point
Author/website(s): Mary Sharratt
364 pages
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication date: June ’06
Genre: Historical fiction
Review book or pleasure reading: Pleasure reading
New-to-me author: Yes
Would I recommend this book: Probably
Would I read more from this author: Looking forward to reading her newest coming this April, Daughters of Witching Hill
Journal notes: Pleasure reading – no review.
In the tradition of Philippa Gregory’s smart, transporting fiction comes this tale of dark suspense, love, and betrayal, featuring two star-crossed sisters, one lost and the other searching.
Bright and inquisitive, Hannah Powers was raised by a father who treated her as if she were his son. While her beautiful and reckless sister, May, pushes the limits of propriety in their small English town, Hannah harbors her own secret: their father has given her an education forbidden to women. But Hannah’s secret serves her well when she journeys to colonial Maryland to reunite with May, who has been married off to a distant cousin after her sexual misadventures ruined her marriage prospects in England.
As Hannah searches for May, who has disappeared, she finds herself falling in love with her brother-in-law. Alone in a wild, uncultivated land where the old rules no longer apply, Hannah is freed from the constraints of the society that judged both her and May as dangerous – too smart, too fearless, and too hungry for life. But Hannah is also plagued by doubt, as her quest for answers to May’s fate grows ever more disturbing and tangled.
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Not sure I”ll read this book but I want to say that I really like your “basic facts” list at the start of your reviews. Kind of puts it all out there. Have you always done this?
I have. As I don’t write full blown reviews I like to let readers know right up front if I enjoyed a book or didn’t.
I just noticed your “pleasure reading” category. It never crossed my mind to have information on what I’m reading without providing a review of it too. You’ve given me something new to think about for my blog.
I got so stressed out thinking about attempting to write some sort of review for every book I read that I quit doing so for my pleasure reading books. It’s made a big difference in my reading. I still let readers know whether I’d recommend a book or not whether its review or pleasure but no more trying to put fingers to keyboard and coming up with something creative.