I was so excited to read this book. I love historical fiction and the Mayflower crossing was an area I hadn't read about before. I didn't realize this was in the Christian genre beforehand. I expected the characters to be religious since they are Puritans but I was not ready to hear every bit of dialogue be I'll pray, I prayed, we have to pray, etc. It sounded as if they had no personality. Initially William was the most likable. He had a good backstory and you wanted to see him succeed. But then he found religion so he could get closer to Mary-Elizabeth. He joined them in the same boring type of dialogue after that.
There was also not much action. People on the boat die of illness and they get to the new land where they have one brief encounter with the native. Afterwards another native comes wandering out the woods, walks up to them, and they make a treaty. The enmity between William and Peter is also resolved in an anticlimactic way. The book could just be summed up with they journey across the ocean, many die of illness in the process, they find land, settle it, make friends with the natives, the end.
As others have said on here, the author puts more interesting stuff in her notes at the end that tell you about the actual historical figures that were in the book.
There was also not much action. People on the boat die of illness and they get to the new land where they have one brief encounter with the native. Afterwards another native comes wandering out the woods, walks up to them, and they make a treaty. The enmity between William and Peter is also resolved in an anticlimactic way. The book could just be summed up with they journey across the ocean, many die of illness in the process, they find land, settle it, make friends with the natives, the end.
As others have said on here, the author puts more interesting stuff in her notes at the end that tell you about the actual historical figures that were in the book.