The Sun Is But A Morning Star

by Connie Lapallo

The Sun Is But a Morning Star is the final novel in the Jamestown Sky series, based on the true story of Joan Peirce and the women and children of Jamestown, Virginia. These novels span 1592 to 1652, sixty years of Joan's life in both England and Virginia.

Genres: Historical Fiction

596 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

Connie Lapallo is the author of two novels based on the true story of colonial Jamestown's first women and children. During her research, she discovered that fifteen generations ago her grandmother Cecily had come to Jamestown in 1611 as an eleven year old. Cecily's mother Joan had come two years before that in 1609. These facts were indisputably in the records. Yet most history books said no women or children were at Jamestown. The realization that history had not only forgotten these women but even denied their existence wouldn’t let Connie go. She set out to tell these women’s story.

Connie is recognized as a historian regarding these early 17th century settlers and has spoken to more than 400 groups, societies, clubs, and schools. She is now working on the third book in the Jamestown Sky trilogy, The Sun is But a Morning Star, and a non-fiction about an early Jamestown governor, In Search of Sir Thomas Gates: A Biography.

To learn more about the Jamestown Sky trilogy and Connie's appearances, join her mailing list: http://connielapallo.com/mailinglist1... or visit her at connielapallo.com.

Reviews

[Margaret Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Her talent does not diminish. Her imagination remains to bring us emotional realism about how it must have been for the English people who moved from towns and at least one large city, across the Atlantic Ocean in the holds of ships powered only by the wind, to build new homes in a forested wilderness heretofore only sparsely inhabited by tribal populations.

Mrs. LaPallo continues this third volume of her novel trilogy from the perspective of her female narrator Joan Peirce, who observes the history she is helping to forge as she and her friends persevere to work, play, and keep their religious faith as they bear and care for their babies, tend the sick, bury the many, many dead, remarry when their husbands die, and try to obey the rules of changing and uncertain English governing experiments in effort to make their settlement a prosperous and peaceful new home—as it spreads into individual homestead claims along both shores of the James and York Rivers and begins to expand northward and eastward across Chesapeake Bay. They suffer grave setbacks between step-by-step achievements, but when Mrs. Peirce's narration ends at her death in 1652, the struggles to establish the colony of Virginia have been fruitful. We, who now enjoy indoor plumbing among not a few other advantages the Jamestown settlers could never have dreamed of, know the subsequent story.

The book is long, but it merits reading to the very last word of the glossary on page 595.

[Julie Gentino · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't recommend this series highly enough! It's wonderful historical fiction. Connie Lapallo did a very thorough, careful job with her research, and brings the courageous settlers of Jamestown colony to life. I learned so much and was sad when the series was over because I feel that these women are now my friends. I hope that my own character will be shaped by reading of their strength of character, hard work, and endurance in suffering. I will reread this series many times.

[Mary Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the continuing story of the Jamestown pioneers and settlers. The whole series brought history to life!

[Shelby · Rating 4 out of 5]

This third and final book of the Jamestown women and children went a little faster then the second one and some more interesting things went on that made it a faster read.

[Logan Guthrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beautifully written work to honor a few of the amazingly strong women of that time. This series of books has been inspiring.