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The Bon Church, by Victoria Dougherty
Pace is important to me as a reader, especially in historical fiction. It's tempting, after all the research an author has done, to include all the trivia. The trivia blogs the story down. Characters get lost while the author explains their context. That said, it's strange to encounter a book like Victoria Dougherty's The Bone Church, which has almost the opposite problem. Her characters race through mid-1940s Czechoslovakia and 1956 Communist Czechoslovakia so quickly that there's almost no exposition. Only the briefest of hints let you know when and where you are...
Read the rest of my review at Summer Reading Project.
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