Publisher's Synopsis
Charles Brockden Brown is insane. This book is so violent and scary. CBB treats his main character like this voo doo doll, it's awesome. Let's throw him into a cave! Now let's throw him down a cliff! Now let's make it so that he has to tumble down this mountain and swim across a freezing river! Now let's hit him in the face with a tom-a-hawk! It's kind of fun. What else is kind of hilarious to me about this book is the fact that it's all written as a letter to his lady. Ha! It's a freaking BOOK! Then at the end he's all, "Hm. Well, I hope this brief letter finds you well, honey. Wait. It's pages and pages and has taken me weeks and weeks! Huh. Would you look at that?" I would poop myself if someone wrote me a letter that long. I had a really hard time automatically assuming the Indians were all bad guys. It's an assumption that readers in the 1790s automatically made. Indian = Bad Guy, but gracious, it was just really disturbing. Oh, America. Such an ugly bloody bloody past you have. I really liked the scary panthers in it and the crazy lady in the woods, Queen Mab. Man, it was gorey. I have more I could say about it, but I should probably read my brother-in-law's chapter about it first and hear what he had to say...
