Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Length: 335 (Nook) pages
Price: Free using epub
Author Website: (this isn't actually the author website, but only because there wasn't anything about the book on the author's site) http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/atwood/aliasgrace.htm (photo credit)
Basic Premise: The master and housekeeper of the house have been murdered and Grace is suspected. She is locked up in prison for the crime, which she may or may not have committed...she can't remember.
My Take: 6 out of 10 (scale here)
This book is an account of the actual murders of Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery in Canada in the mid-1800s. It follows Grace, the suspected murderess who has been imprisoned for the crime, and Simon Jordan, a doctor hired to try to retrieve the memories Grace claimed to have lost. I read this book because it was chosen by our teacher book club at school - otherwise, I know I would have never picked a book like this up. It was well-written and interesting enough, though this type of content isn't really my cup of tea. The tone is quite dark and aside from Grace herself, who was quite likeable, I found the characters quite shallow - particularly the men. By the time the story ended, I wasn't really sure of the point. I enjoyed the historical aspect, but the story itself was a bit of a let-down.
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