A review by poojha2
The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline

4.0

It's all together a different type of a story then I have read. I couldn't connect with it at the beginning but after 100 to 150 pages I started to love it. It was kind of depressing to read. All that suffering and living in a place full of god knows what ?? Sometimes the suffering was so overwhelming I began to cry. I love to read historical fiction novels. It was great to read about 1840's. I have no words to explain how I feel about this book. It was so cruel at that time. Sending 7 years out of the country for stealing a spoon is just cruel. I didn't like the way it ended for matianna. She's just a little girl who was separated from her people and then left to suffer in an unknown place. She didn't deserve an end like this. I most-liked the character of Evangeline and after that particular event happened. I didn't have the heart to continue the story. But I am happy to have completed it.