Tecumseh's Curse

by W.C. Madden

Book

194 pages, Paperback

First published July 14, 2011

Reviews

[Jon Dodsley · Rating 1 out of 5]

I enjoy good historical fiction so was looking forward to this when I received a copy to review, and it started well but seemed to run out of steam quickly.
The juxtaposition between modern day killings and historical events were often not clearly linked, and seemed almost superfluous in places. It was clear that the author knew his subject matter well and the older history was well covered, but the stilted writing style meant the sections often felt disjointed, and some of the speech between the two central characters (modern day detectives) reminded me more of the kind of speech written by school children in exam essays in that it did not flow smoothly nor seem to be representative of 'real' conversation.
Overall I was left very disappointed and had forgotten this almost as soon as it was finished. One ot avoid I'm afraid.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was delighted to receive this book as a Goodreads giveaway.

I felt in many ways however that I actually had to force myself to finish the read. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy the historical chapters or even the present day ones but it was the lack of 'anything happening' in the modern day until ooops all of a sudden in the last 3 or 4 pages everything was sewn up.

However I am finding this happens more and more recently so it may just be a 'not for me' style.

[Erica · Rating 1 out of 5]

Though the idea of Tecumseh's curse and the history is interesting, the writing is very poor. It is a little stilted, using "for" and "as" far too often, includes many unnecessary details, and the sentences are long and unwieldy. The editing is lacking as well, as spelling errors and typos are frequent.

[Daniel Smith]

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