This is a bit of a slow starter of a book and I have not become immersed in the story or the people by the end of the First Impression. There is just something about it that keeps you on the surface of the tale, something that stops you spilling headlong in to 18th Century New York.
The descriptions of the place, the smells and the sounds are all there but somehow it misses the mark. The characters are hard to grasp a sense of too. Our main protagonist, Justy, is elusive despite the multitude of words used about him and by him.
I am definitely on the fence about this one, hopefully it is just a slow burner and gets going after everything has bedded in around the 50 page mark.
The descriptions of the place, the smells and the sounds are all there but somehow it misses the mark. The characters are hard to grasp a sense of too. Our main protagonist, Justy, is elusive despite the multitude of words used about him and by him.
I am definitely on the fence about this one, hopefully it is just a slow burner and gets going after everything has bedded in around the 50 page mark.