A review by sophiemints
The Schoolmaster's Daughter by John Smolens

DNF at about 30% give or take. This had such a perfect premise for me and I was so excited - Boston at the start of the Revolutionary War, a family with torn loyalties, romantic subplot, characters involved in historical events, humanizing history, liberty's kids energy. Here's the catch though: female main character, this book is written by a man. Frowny face. The way he wrote her made absolutely no sense, her actions made no sense for the time period, for her initially established character and values - she is very flighty and casually sexualized along with other female characters (insert myriad women written by men memes). It wasn't horrific, but it was definitely there. I might go back to it eventually, just because of the amazing premise and the fact that some things might be explained later, but overall I wish it was better. The lack of revolutionary war era historical fiction is actually criminal, please write more, authors