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A review by palliem
Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers
2.0
I really wanted to love this because I'm definitely on a historical fiction kick, and the filles de roi were something I didn't know anything about.
The story follows Laure, an "orphan" from France who is sent to New France (Canada) in the late 1600s as a part of the King's plan to populate the new colony. It's a fascinating piece of history, and perhaps the story would have been better in the hands of a better writer.
This book wasn't bad, but it was clearly by someone who was new at the craft of novel writing. Laure was poorly characterized and never grew or changed throughout the story and the first two-thirds of the book contained so much extraneous detail that I lost interest at times. Many of the storylines introduced early in the novel have no tie to the overall arc, which was frustrating. The author spent far too little time on Laure's life in Canada and never really ended the story or wrapped up Laure's storyline, which was an unsatisfactory ending.
The story follows Laure, an "orphan" from France who is sent to New France (Canada) in the late 1600s as a part of the King's plan to populate the new colony. It's a fascinating piece of history, and perhaps the story would have been better in the hands of a better writer.
This book wasn't bad, but it was clearly by someone who was new at the craft of novel writing. Laure was poorly characterized and never grew or changed throughout the story and the first two-thirds of the book contained so much extraneous detail that I lost interest at times. Many of the storylines introduced early in the novel have no tie to the overall arc, which was frustrating. The author spent far too little time on Laure's life in Canada and never really ended the story or wrapped up Laure's storyline, which was an unsatisfactory ending.