While there certainly is a strong plot to the book (more on this a tad later), I feel an integral part of the story lays in exploring the city, its inhabitants, and learning about them as people living in a period rife with changes of all sorts, rather than simple and vague background characters.
Whether we’re walking down a street, crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, or exploring a crime scene, our senses are consistently flooded with information to the point where it takes little effort to recreate the scene in your mind. Donati has once again shown the fruits of all her countless hours spent researching this time period, with one evocative and vivid description after the next. To start things off, I would like to draw your attention to the strongest element of the book, which I also believe was the case for the first novel in The Waverly Place series: the setting. Seeing this as yet another opportunity to help the less fortunate and make some kind of difference in the world, the cousins set out on a dangerous road where some men have seen the worst brought out of them. Having little recourse, Jack enlists the help his wife and her cousin as consultants, hoping they might nudge things in the right direction. The second case pertains to the body of a young woman, with some baffling wounds which might suggest a very unstable individual is on the prowl in the city. The first one is the disappearance of a prominent banker’s wife, who seems to have literally vanished into thin air with no one being the wiser. Jack finds himself dealing with two rather peculiar cases he can’t make heads or tails of. Just when it looks like things are in danger of becoming a little stable, a violent fury casts its shadow over New York. While Sophie has decided to dedicate her life to helping and saving the disadvantaged women forgotten by society, Anna has found herself a husband, the Detective-Sergeant Jack Mezzanotte. The story opens by taking us to 1884 Manhattan, in the early spring, as both of our doctors seem to have finally managed to establish a foothold for themselves in an ever-changing society. With Where the Light Enters, we get to continue the remarkable adventures of the doctors and cousins, Sophie and Anna Savard.
The closer we look at any time period, the more we come to realize the various years making it up can often be unique microcosms now only found in history books.īecause of the events which followed it in the 20th century, it feels to me as if the late 19th century has been a tad overlooked, which is an element which initially drew me to Sara Donati‘s The Gilded Hour, the first book in The Waverly Place series. Many are the authors who who aim to explore different time periods in human history, and yet it still feels as if we have a tremendous amount of uncharted territory to go through.
Sara Donati Continues the New York Adventure
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