The Traitor's Wife

The Traitor's Wife, by Kathleen Kent, 352 pages

Martha Allen is a no-nonsense woman living in colonial Massachusetts.  She suffers no fools and has not been able to find a husband for it.  While assisting her cousin during the term of her pregnancy, she meets a man with a mysterious past, named Thomas, and feelings begin to blossom.  But Thomas' past is sailing across the ocean with murder in mind, and Martha and Thomas' future is uncertain.

...that is, unless you read the book to which this is a prequel, The Heretic's Daughter.  I had not, so I did not know how it would end.  The journey to the ending, though, is the interesting part.  This brought up a lot of interesting talk about Oliver Cromwell and Restoration England in our book discussion.

Six Earlier Days

Six Earlier Days by David Levithan, 47 pages

This is a preview to the book Every Day. A wakes up every day in someone else’s body. Sometimes she is a girl, sometimes he is a boy; every day is different. This book takes six days from A’s life and shows us what happens on those specific days. Sometimes A is with an abusive family. Sometimes friends disclose a love interest in the person A is inhabiting and A doesn’t know how the person would respond. Sometimes A is able to make people’s lives a little better, maybe. This was an interesting look into more of A’s life but I think that only people who had read Every Day would really enjoy it.