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Skyfire
Skyfire is an historical novel set between 1819 in Ireland and 1860 in Chicago. Seamus, a young fugitive from the Old World, comes to the New World to form a shipping dynasty by way of the lessons learned while digging canals in Ohio, trapping in the north woods, becoming a married man in a Pottowatomi village, and working for the people who found a city. The lessons he learns through love, friendship, and betrayal help to make him into the kind of man who is respected, admired, and loved not only by his sons but by everyone who knows him.
334 pages, Paperback
Published November 4, 2015
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November 19, 2015
This is the type of historical fiction that puts you right in the past, living through history through the rich characters and interweaved factual events and people the protagonist meets along his journey. Seamus is so instantly likable and good, while still having his faults and lapses in judgement, that you can both imagine him existing in this time, and wish he had actually been around for all the good he does. When you complete his tale, with the hardships of his life still in Ireland, and in some ways the even worse hardships he faces in the New World before finding some peace with his family, makes you wish you had the next installment the moment you're finished. You'll stop reading ready to pick up The Boys and read on through the rest of this family's journey.
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