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Ravenscraig (2012)

by Sandi Krawchenko Altner(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1469783231 (ISBN13: 9781469783239)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

IUniverse

review 1: This was an interesting and enjoyable read! Very rich in history of the Jewish Russians, Ukranians and from other countries and how they made their voyage to Canada and claimed land in Manitoba. It follows a family in the upper echelons of society (although, there's a little something secret to the patriarch's past), and a Jewish family that escaped from the Russian Czar. Starts in the late 1800's and even takes you through the sinking of the Titanic. I highly recommend this to history buffs (there's a little romance, but very clean and not stifling)
review 2: I was intrigued by the idea of a novel set in Winnipeg, Manitoba as it grew into one of the larger Canadian cities. On that score, the book delivered, showing many sides of people's experiences in that ci... morety -- both the poor and the rich. Fires, epidemics, waves of immigration, secret pasts and men creating their own futures from nothing... it's all to be had in this book.However, the book didn't achieve the same success with the plot and the characters. It was a little hard to tell whose story we were following, or why we should care about what's happening as we shift from one perspective to another, and the characters themselves were a bit cartoonish. The final stages of the book are in the summer of 1914 which strikes me as an odd time to leave off a story in historical fiction, since we know that WWI is going to turn Canada upside down in a few months' time. I'm glad to have had the chance to read a little about the history of a place that I know next to nothing about, and I'll definitely be looking up more info on the history of western Canadian cities, now. less

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