Annie Moore: New York City Girl

Annie Moore #3

by Eithne Loughrey

The fifteen-year-old who was the very first immigrant of any nationality to land at the famous handling station at Ellis Island, New York, has now become a young woman of twenty. Annie returns to New York and her family and friends after her two-year stay in the Wild West. She is excited by all the opportunities New York has to offer her, but especially by the prospect of spending more time with Mike Tierney, the young man she loves.

Genres: Historical Fiction

139 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Grace · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars. I'm so glad to be done with this series. This book wasn't bad, but the writing just isn't captivating, and the characters and plot are only slightly more interesting. I had a few things I didn't appreciate, just like with the other two books, but I'm only going to talk about one of those things, and here it is.
The author goes to all the trouble of creating a fictionalized account of Annie Moore's life that she hopes readers will emotionally invest in, resolves it happily, and then kills the feeling with a two page epilogue about what really happened to Annie Moore. But an author's job is to make their readers believe the story they're telling. Clearly, when part of the author's story has some historical truth in it, they have to be honest about how their story is fiction, not fact. But in this case, the author ruins your wonder and faith in the story by immediately following the resolution with a summary of the real Annie Moore's life, and makes it painfully obvious that nothing that happened in the story was real. A reader should already know that without it being spelled out. Hence, historical fiction. The information was interesting, it was just ill-placed.
In hindsight, I'm thinking that most of my problems with this series were probably just a result of amateurish writing.