I picked this book because it’s got a cool name. And the premise was alright, past and present united with a murder. A house that has ghosts, historians telling their story, and one of the characters in the present gets poisoned, as one in the past did.
But. It wasn’t good. […]

This was the sequel, about John Tradescant’s son, also called John Tradescant.  Again with the not feeling the character very well.  And again, it might be because I couldn’t relate as a woman.  I’m not sure that’s it though, but more that the author didn’t portray it in a way that made me feel anything.  […]

“Or that this is madness. It is madness to think that God should make a dozen things almost the same but a little different. All a man of sense could think is that God did not make them. That the earth they feed on and the water they drink makes plants in […]