I often had to reread paragraphs to figure out what was said out loud and by whom. It also did not make it easier to read when it came to Hugo’s present day confession and the words exchanged between Hugo and his laywers were not in quotations. However, the author would get too carried away until it became a rambling tangent that interrupted the narrative.

I liked the historical fiction aspect when it came to reading about America’s landscape and city life in the late 1800’s.

I stared out at the desert and felt its challenge.) (: No other landscape I had ever experienced more proved the point that beauty and terror are sisters. At times the descriptions would be quite poetic. It really took me a while to get used to the prose. I was randomly selected to receive an advanced digital copy of this novel through this site I signed up to. (Note: I originally wrote this review on March 14, 2014) This narrative-a love story and a mystery with a powerful sense of fable-is his confession. The tormented, self-dramatizing Hugo Delegate speaks from a prison cell where he is prepared to take the fall for his beloved Savage Girl. Zimmerman’s tale is narrated by the Delegate’s son, a Harvard anatomy student. A series of suitors, both young and old, find her irresistible, but the willful girl’s illicit lovers begin to turn up murdered. Jean Zimmerman’s new novel tells of the dramatic events that transpire when an alluring, blazingly smart eighteen-year-old girl named Bronwyn, reputedly raised by wolves in the wilds of Nevada, is adopted in 1875 by the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple, and taken back East to be civilized and introduced into high society.īronwyn hits the highly mannered world of Edith Wharton–era Manhattan like a bomb. She takes her new world by storm as suitors find her irresistible…and deadly.Ī riveting tale from the author of The Orphanmaster about a wild girl from Nevada who lands in Manhattan’s Gilded Age society Savage Girl introduces us to Bronwyn, a strong, independent girl who is adopted by a wealthy Manhattan couple. Stephanie on Dark Age by Pierce Brown **WAR… Top Ten Tuesday April 11: Titles/Covers with Animals In/On Themīrendan S McParland on Dark Age by Pierce Brown **WAR….A Thousand Miles to Graceland by Kristen Mei Chase.Top Ten Tuesday April 25: Favorite Audiobook Narrators.Top Ten Tuesday May 2: The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf.

Savage Girl by Jean Zimmerman