![]() ![]() With no more wars, murderous neighbors, and scheming or vindictive acquaintances in the offing, it is appropriate to end the series. With all the children and grandchildren come home to Paradise, there is not room in the story to do them all justice. Some wonderful and well-loved personalities are only barely sketched. While The Endless Forest is still a heartwarming and absorbing read, the characters and the village have all settled down, and consequently so have the plot twists. The reader rarely has the feeling in this book that things might go seriously awry for the main characters, and never for more than a few pages. While one ultimately expects a happy ending, the previous books were full of action and adventures that kept the reader on edge, where every plot twist had potential for heartbreak, death, or other dire and irrevocable perils. Unfortunately, this results in a story decidedly more domesticated that the rest. Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness) Dawn on a Distant Shore (Wilderness) Sara Donati 1,409 Mass Market Paperback 126 offers from 0. Donati brings all the story lines to their denouements in an uncontrived way. The time period of these books covers 1792 to 1824 so they are set after the Outlander books but at the same time a lot of the themes are very similar.įans of the Wilderness Saga will enjoy this final volume, though it is decidedly less vivid and exciting than the author's previous and superlative works and may not attract new fans. There are five or is it six? books in the series and I'd recommend them to any Diana Gabaldon fan as they have a very similar way of writing and very likeable and realistic characters. The rest is history but of course the path to true happiness doesn't come easy (and let's face it if it did then the story would probably be boring). ![]() who is a backwoodsman living life as a Mohawk with links to Scotland. The books start in 1792 when an English woman Elizabeth Middleton goes to live with her father in the wilderness of upstate New York in a small settlement by the name of Paradise in order to become a school teacher. The books are very well written and whilst the plots are no where near as complex as the Outlander books they have many twists and turns to them making them really compelling reading. I found it quite amusing as I already knew what to expect but there is still a sense of "This woman doctor seems really familiar. For those of you who haven't heard of Sara Donati she is a great author and came to my attention because she "borrowed" some of the Outlander characters to make guest appearances in her first book. Sara Donati is the international bestselling author of the Wilderness series, which includes Into the Wilderness, Dawn on a Distant Shore, Lake in the Clouds, Fire Along the Sky, Queen of Swords, and The Endless Forest.įacebook: make it to an event? No problem! You can pre-pay and receive a signed, personalized copy of the book you want.I decided to finally read "Endless Forest" to finish off the Wilderness Series by Sara Donati. Unable to ignore the plight of New York's less fortunate, these intrepid cousins draw on all resources to protect their patients. In New York it seems that the advancement of women has brought out the worst in some men. As Sophie sets out to construct a new life for herself, Anna's husband, Detective-Sergeant Jack Mezzanotte calls on them both to consult on two new cases: the wife of a prominent banker has disappeared into thin air, and the corpse of a young woman is found with baffling wounds that suggest a killer is on the loose. Anna Savard, her dearest friend, cousin, and fellow physician she plans to continue her work aiding the disadvantaged women society would rather forget. Sophie Savard returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early spring of 1884 to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. *Join us for this FREE Lit Live! event - meet the author and get your book signed!*įrom the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati's enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York.
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