Review of Book Winter Sisters by Robin Oliveira
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Oliveira'due south way of writing fits the era quite nicely, with a certain level of propriety that stops well short of being stodgy. Without being overly lyrical or poetic, she draws a pic of Albany with many well-placed hints and carefully drawn descriptions of various locations that complement the story and characters. Mind you, some of the characters here are far from respectable, and the voices that Oliveira gives them reverberate their social status perfectly. In fact, there was i grapheme that I particularly fell in love with, despite the cliché of her being a "whore with a heart of gold." If Oliveira is thinking of writing a 3rd volume in this series, I would respectfully suggest that her side by side major protagonist be this graphic symbol!..continued
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Media Reviews
Library Journal
Oliveira blends mystery, historical detail, and courtroom drama in a compelling story that will delight almost historical fiction fans, especially those who enjoyed the previous novel.
Booklist
Some aspects of the mystery seem rather obvious, but the court scenes are dramatically unpredictable. The private stories build to create a multifaceted and affecting portrait of backbone.
Publishers Weekly
Oliveira's beautiful, expertly researched novel showcases the lives of women overcoming societal constraints and living fearlessly.
Kirkus Reviews
Starred Review. Oliveira crafts a complex, multifaceted historical novel that is both a captivating story and a commentary on the laws that have, for far too long, oppressed and endangered women... Entertaining at times, deeply political at others; a perfect example of a historical novel that likewise illuminates nowadays-day issues.
Lauren Belfer, New York Times bestselling author of Urban center of Light, A Fierce Radiance, and And After the Burn
Robin Oliveira has a remarkable souvenir for bringing the past to life. In Winter Sisters, she matches a bold, vivid story with a rare sensitivity to the natural world in all its serene beauty and deadly strength. This is a compelling novel that volition keep you up all dark.
Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia and Where They Found Her
Equal parts exquisitely detailed historical drama and riveting literary thriller, Winter Sisters deftly explores the brutal costs of child exploitation, while elegantly demonstrating the healing power of true compassion and profound sisterly devotion.
Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena
After two immature sisters vanish in a snowstorm, the whys and hows of their disappearance apace become a compelling and increasingly complex mystery. Robin Oliveira renders nineteenth-century Albany, New York, with exactitude and vividness, but her novel's ultimate concerns are timeless - suffering and healing, the loyalty to family unit versus loyalty to justice.
Melanie Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue
Raw beauty and devastation, both; this is true of the forces of nature and the foibles of men that propel the plot of Winter Sisters toward its stunning climax.
Dawn Tripp, bestselling author of Georgia
Suspenseful and beautifully written, shot through with wisdom and grace, this is a book you will stay up belatedly for - a book you volition read and love and share.
Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling writer of Loving Frank and Under the Wide and Starry Sky
A haunting tale of terror and enduring love, Winter Sisters is tense and vivid. It kept me immersed to the terminal folio.
Sena Jeter Naslund, bestselling author of Ahab'due south Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette
Wintertime Sisters commands the reader's attention. Both a missing-person thriller and a court drama that appeals powerfully to the middle, this novel shows a society on the brink of change at the finish of the nineteenth century.
Thomas Christopher Greene, author of The Headmaster's Married woman and If I Forget Y'all
A true tour de force, Winter Sisters is the best flow thriller I've read since The Alienist. Robin Oliveira is a novelist working at the tiptop of her powers. Beautifully written, compelling, sensual and cinematic, I couldn't put it downwardly.
Julie Barton, New York Times bestselling author of Dog Medicine
Wintertime Sisters is a brilliant literary triptych: part tender family saga, part feminist narrative, part wild mystery. Just the author who introduced us to the unforgettable and tenacious Mary Sutter could spin a tale and so captivating and empowering, of winter destruction followed, we can just hope, by the renewing bloom of spring.
Reader Reviews
Michael Haughton
Winter Sisters
I recollect the writer started corking with introducing the scene. Further explanations reveal the plot lining. merely as I go along saying with the use of give-and-take to bring out phrases are some times used wrongly. this line was no different." In concession to ... Read More
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