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berlinbibliophile's review
4.0
Short but sweet. This book deals with a real historical event, but Amy Dillwyn has found a way to stick close to the real story while also giving her characters room to breathe. Evan is an engaging protagonist who the reader sympathises with even when they don't agree with him. Evan, far from accepting the realities of classist societies without question, satirizes them beautifully again and again. One of my favourite passages from the novel is the one in which he imagines how the upper classes would react if poor people entered their homes without invitation and started inspecting the place and asking "well-meaning" philanthropic questions.
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