Books by Suzanne Desrochers
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review 1: This book is bizarrely (barely) plotted and does a lot more telling than showing; characters and situations are described, not illustrated with dialogue or actions. the author is apparently studying for a PhD on the subject of this generation of French Canadian women, and it sho...
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review 1: 2.5 stars. Short, slow-burning novel about one of the filles du roi, the poor girls sent to New France as wives to build a colony from the motley rabble of fur-trappers who lived there. Doesn't romanticize the situation like 7th grade history class did--most of the women were sen...
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review 1: This is a terrible book. I stuck with most of the way theough, because I was interested in the history it was describing, but couldn't even bring myself to finish. None of it felt believable, and I found lots of little things that seemed like like historical inaccuracies (but thi...