After Alice Fell

Slogging Through "After Alice Fell" was just okay for me. It is the about a Civil War period woman who thinks her sister was murdered. It was a great concept. However, the execution of the story was slow. I almost quit a few times. Feelings of guilt run throughout this book. Do I recommend? Only if t......more

What’s so impressive and beautifully unique about Kim Taylor Blakemore’s writing is its lens. Her signature attention to sensory detail is so sharp and specific that I want to call her out as a writer that’s created an entirely new point-of-view category. More than merely first-person, her novels ar......more

This was a good book; not great, not bad. I wouldn’t rush out to recommend it to everyone but then if someone asked me about it and said they were thinking of reading it I would encourage them to do so. The writing is lovely, the whole book is set back in the 1860’s ish, an old fashioned world with o......more

I could not get into this book. There was so much description, and it just made it a hard read. I know every detail of the wallpaper that the narrator's brother's wife put up, but very little to understand why her sister Alice was confined to an asylum. Just hinted references. I understand not wanti......more

After Alice Fell is the story of two sisters: one who goes to nurse the sick in the Civil War, the other to an asylum for the insane shortly thereafter. When Marion, the nurse, returns from the horrors of the war, she finds she must face another tragedy: the death of her unusual, if beloved, sister......more