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Part three of the Into the Wilderness saga catches the Bonners as their oldest daughter Hannah comes into her own as an independent young woman and talented healer. It is a difficult time on the mountain and off. Slavery and all it's ugliness is at issue. I was not aware that the northern states allowed slaves, so this point was particularly jarring to me. It prompted me to research a bit and indeed slavery was allowed in the northern states, New York in particular.
The Bonner's with their strong moral code of freedom for all are caught up in the mess. All the while Hannah, struggles with her heart and her own moral compass as she travels away from the mountain for the first time to expand her medical knowledge.
I found this to be a satisfying read. I'm invested in the characters and their never a dull moment lives. The author knows how to spin her web.


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Lake in the Clouds Wilderness Sara Donati 9780553582796 Books Reviews

This is the third book in the Wilderness series, picking up in 1802, eight years after we last saw the Bonner family in Dawn on a Distant Shore. As in that book, a large portion of this book focuses on Hannah, who has evolved as my favorite character. While her parents go off on a dangerous mission to help a group of runaway slaves achieve freedom, eighteen-year-old Hannah sets off on an adventure of her own to study vaccination methods in New York City. The story alternates between Elizabeth's and Nathaniel's quest, Hannah's time in the city and the people left behind in Paradise, with the youngest Bonner daughter, Lily, and Hannah's nemesis, Jemimah, narrating.

Once again Ms. Donati does an excellent job of bringing the time period to life. I especially enjoyed the depiction of life in New York City and Hannah's time spent working in the almshouse hospital. Here, as everywhere else, Hannah is confronted with the prejudice and ignorance of others who cannot see past the color of her skin, but she is determined to learn as much as she can to take back to the people living on the frontier and she handles it as the intelligent, courageous and courteous woman that she is.

Due to the change of setting in the previous book, we lost track of the characters living in Paradise, but they're all back in this book in all of their colorful glory. But all is not well and there is a lot of death in this story. It's very sad, but when you have a book with so many characters, it's bound to happen, and it's also very realistic. Life was not easy back then and the mortality rate was very high.

Now that I've sung the book's praises, I'll get to what I didn't like. Early on in the book there are a couple of very graphic sex scenes with secondary characters. Graphic sex scenes in general don't bother me, I actually like a healthy dose of sex in my books, but in this case this is a departure from the style of the previous books in the series and it seemed to be done mostly for shock value. Then later in the book when the characters that I actually want to see having sex finally do, I get nothing! Frustrating. That leads me to what has been my biggest complaint in all of the books, that I've felt that the author skipped over some important incidents that deserved to have their own scenes rather than being touched on in the narrative after the fact. It happens again at the end of this one when Hannah makes her decision about what she's going to do with her life and we don't get to witness her take those first steps firsthand. There was also a fairly important plot mystery featuring Hannah's first love that was not resolved at the end of this story and that disappointed me, though I'm hoping this means the story will be revived in one of the future books.

However, my complaints are relatively minimal when compared with the overall quality of the books in this series, the next of which is Fire Along the Sky. I am looking forward to reading it, though I am disappointed to see that it begins ten years down the road when I really would have liked to continue the story right where this book ended.
You take a dozen different readers and you're gonna get a dozen different opinions on the same story. For me, this third book in the Wilderness Saga was quite good. A continuing epic that was basically Hannah's story, but still brought us our beloved Elizabeth, Nathaniel and a bit of the wise wit of legendary Hawkeye.

As families grow, branch out in different interests and move on in their lives, so does Hannah and the Bonners. Hannah's interest in medicine has developed and she takes instruction, temporarily, in Albany under prestigious Drs. She (as well as Elizabeth and Nathaniel) are indirectly and unintentionally involved in running slaves to their freedom and thwarting the slave trade in general. There are bounty hunters and black riots. And Hannah meets a few famous people including the sitting Presidents' Secretary. Quite a coup for a half breed female of this era.

This story gives us a little bit of NY Smallpox vaccination history as well as a scarlet fever epidemic and Hannah's involvement in those areas. And Hannah continues to generate respect from just about everyone she meets.

Personally I loved this story and I thought it was well played. It held me captive with all the drama of slaves running for freedom and all the ugliness involved in slave trade. I love Hannah's character...I love her strength and wisdom. She's complex, serious and all things good.

I continue to feel sorrow for Dr. Richard Todd..and I only hope we hear that he finds happiness in book four.
With all the far-flung travel that went on in the last book, I was glad to see that for the most part, in Lake in the Clouds, adventure and danger, and romance, were much closer and was relieved to see the Bonner family come back home. An excellent read, I must say, I enjoyed this third installment over, the previous book. I especially loved Hannah's storyline. And I must say, that her story has-what I felt-was an excellent and rewarding finish, concerning a certain rival. Now I'm moving on to book four.
I totally love this series. I had my doubts about how much I would like Book 3 because the focus changed from Nathaniel and Elizabeth to Hannah, Nathaniel's daughter with his deceased wife. What can I say other than thus far, Sara Donati has never failed to deliver a great story.

As with any story dealing with the mixing of cultures, there are predjudices, injustices and such, but what is great about Sara Donati is the way she deals with these issues. She details the unfairness and horror, yet doesn't paint the oppressed as hopeless, helpless victims in spite of the fact they may not emerge with the best possible outcome.
Part three of the Into the Wilderness saga catches the Bonners as their oldest daughter Hannah comes into her own as an independent young woman and talented healer. It is a difficult time on the mountain and off. Slavery and all it's ugliness is at issue. I was not aware that the northern states allowed slaves, so this point was particularly jarring to me. It prompted me to research a bit and indeed slavery was allowed in the northern states, New York in particular.
The Bonner's with their strong moral code of freedom for all are caught up in the mess. All the while Hannah, struggles with her heart and her own moral compass as she travels away from the mountain for the first time to expand her medical knowledge.
I found this to be a satisfying read. I'm invested in the characters and their never a dull moment lives. The author knows how to spin her web.