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A review by eastoflaura
Shadow Patriots: A Novel of the Revolution by Lucia St. Clair Robson
4.0
Normally, a book becomes an all-time great in my mind with the perfect mashup of character and prose. But neither of those was what made me so happy I read this book. Robson's prose was more straightforward and less colloquial than I normally like, but she absolutely transported me back in time to what it must have been like living in NYC during The Revolutionary War.
And even though I wouldn't say character-building was Robson's strength, I couldn't stop myself from falling into the wikipedia-hole researching in greater detail the majority of them. And wow, sometimes fact ends up way more interesting than fiction. I'd already been to a lot of the places mentioned in the book in NYC, but after I finished it, I took a trip up to Tappan, NY to see some of the locations up there. Five stars for peaking my (undoubtedly already high) interest in this time period, and three stars for the actual book itself. Unequivocal recommendation to any history nerd!
And even though I wouldn't say character-building was Robson's strength, I couldn't stop myself from falling into the wikipedia-hole researching in greater detail the majority of them. And wow, sometimes fact ends up way more interesting than fiction. I'd already been to a lot of the places mentioned in the book in NYC, but after I finished it, I took a trip up to Tappan, NY to see some of the locations up there. Five stars for peaking my (undoubtedly already high) interest in this time period, and three stars for the actual book itself. Unequivocal recommendation to any history nerd!