Otto’s Reviews > The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride > Status Update

I am... rapidly having trouble convincing myself this book is worth finishing. The writing alone is reminding me of what my 10th graders submit in their essays, and while that can occasionally make an interesting novel (even a nonfiction one), it's more distracting than anything in this case.

Lansford Hastings, you had better PRAY from the great beyond that I never find a time machine. What an ass.

These people need a nap in a soft bed and some vaccines STAT.

"... but as a lens through which I hope you will be able to gaze with compassion and understanding on one young woman and all that the world once was to her" (xvi).

Oh, you're gonna make me cry, aren't you?