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Threads And Flames (2010)

by Esther M. Friesner(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0670012459 (ISBN13: 9780670012459)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Viking Juvenile

review 1: Focusing around the tragic Triangle Waist Shirtwaist Factory fire, 'Threads and Flames' starts off with a strong premise, backed with the historically and culturally-heavy times of the early 1900s. It stays true to the time period in which it takes place--racism, sexism, and all--and is not afraid to delve into those areas.However, the slightly lackluster characters and spotty pacing make it more of a chore than a simple leisure read. It is difficult to stay involved in at first, having an extremely slow beginning in which many essentially filler characters are thrown in, making it drag. The main character is also difficult to read, with no sure personality and character motivation until later in the book. Within the course of the first one hundred pages the main character... more, who is a Polish teenager named Raisa, manages to only just arrive in America's New York. It takes her another hundred or so pages to start the trek to resolve her main conflict (i.e. locating her missing sister). Also, one must have to get over half way into the book before they get what is on the tin--the factory fire takes place in chapter fourteen. There is romance, life-or-death situations, prostitutes, and history references galore within the 390 pages of this novel. Final verdict: not necessarily a bad read, but not something to be too excited about reading, either.
review 2: The book Threads and Flames is a amazing book with an fascinating story line. I gave this book a 5-5 because I thought it was very well thought out. In the novel there is a girl named Raisa and she lives in a polish shitle she leave to go find her sister Henda but she has moved to New York on her way to New York she meets a girl and they bunk in the same room then they find a little girl named Brian and something terrible to her mother less

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