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Children of Liberty, the much-anticipated prequel to Paullina Simons’s The Bronze Horseman, is a story of love and possibility in turn-of-the-century America.
Gina Attaviano travels from Sicily to Boston to start a new life with only the clothes on her back. Harry Barrington is the son of one of New England’s most successful businessmen. Despite their differences and the strong opposition of their families, their attraction is strong. Set against a time of transformation for a growing nation, Gina and Harry must find the courage to do what is right, no matter what the price.
Deeply emotional and satisfying, Children of Liberty features a cast of characters you’ll root for as they fight against their feelings, but discover that true love can never be denied.
- Sales Rank: #293764 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-02-26
- Released on: 2013-02-26
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Formulaic offering by established novelist Simons, combining history with predictably troubled love story of Italian immigrant Gina, considered socially inappropriate for Harry, a well-bred Harvard man she meets at the docks. Years later, they engage in an affair overlapping with real events such as the International Workers of the World founding and Eugene Debs’ controversial popularity. Gina grows up, changes her name to Jane, and attends college, trying not only to assimilate but also to bridge contemporary class divisions of ethnicity amid competing values and economic theories. For those craving an easy, smooth read, the characters’ personal lives can engage emotionally, but Simons’ technique of self-conscious inner monologue is hyperbolic. It can pay other dividends, including education about common pitfalls during the peak years of European arrivals. But for readers familiar with this era, a family’s decision to make the ocean crossing following the breadwinner’s death is clich�, as is Harry’s agonizing between high-society fianc�e and soul mate. Skillful writing makes Boston’s changing landscape vivid, yet characters’ situations are ultimately not distinguishable from those of other sagas. --Cynthia-Marie OBrien
Review
'To read Paullina Simons is to risk being moved to tears both of sorrow and joy, and not always separately' GOOD READING MAGAZINE Praise for Tatiana and Alexander: 'This has everything a romance glutton could wish for: a bold, talented and dashing hero, a heart-stopping love affair ... It also has - thank goodness - a welcome sense of humour and discernible characters rather than ciphers' DAILY MAIL Praise for Tully: 'Pick up this book and prepare to have your emotions wrung so completely you'll be sobbing your heart out one minute and laughing through your tears the next... Read it and weep - literally' COMPANY
From the Back Cover
Before Tatiana and Alexander . . . before Leningrad and Lazarevo . . . before everything, there was Gina Attaviano, who came from Belpasso to Boston's Freedom Docks seeking a new and better life. There she meets Harry Barrington. Their bond is instantaneous, urgent . . . but so are the forces against them.
At the turn of the century and the dawning of the modern world, the fortunes and future of the Barringtons and Attavianos become intertwined, on a collision course between the old and the new, between what is expected and what is desired, what is chosen and what is bestowed, what is given and what is taken away. As America races headlong into the future, much will be lost and much will be gained for Gina and Harry, and for a nation and a people that have the blessing and the curse of unrivaled opportunity . . . and unlimited potential.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
Great love story in its own right
By Amelia68
Children of Liberty is the prequel to the much loved Bronze Horseman series. Set in Boston at the turn of the last century, it tells the story of the forbidden love between Gina Attaviano and Harry Barrington, who feature as Alexander's parents in The Bronze Horseman. Fourteen-year-old Gina, just arrived from Sicily with her mother and brother Salvo, first meets Harry and his best friend Ben as the young men try to drum up customers for their apartments for immigrants near the Freedom Docks. And although the family only stay for one night before making their own way to nearby Lawrence to live with other family members from Sicily, Ben is instantly smitten by Gina's dark-skinned, dark-haired sensual beauty. Despite Salvo's efforts to protect his sister and his obvious animosity towards her American admirers, Ben starts making frequent visits to the Attaviano family, dragging his friend Harry along for company. Gina, an enterprising young woman with big dreams for the future, falls head-over-heels in love with Harry, the son of a wealthy Boston businessman, who is also engaged to one of Boston's most eligible socialites. Considering Gina's youth and their vastly different backgrounds, her love for him seems doomed from the very beginning. But Gina does not give up that easily ....
The problem with prequels of much loved books is that they are being read with high expectations, and can easily disappoint when those are not met. Since The Bronze Horseman features on my all-time-favourites list, I tried to put those thoughts aside when picking up this book, and to read it with an open mind and judge it on its own merits rather than in comparison with its sequels. And whilst Boston's politics and turn-of-the-century history could never compete with the interesting and dramatic backdrop of the siege of Leningrad, I was soon drawn into the story and really enjoyed reading about Harry and Gina's love story. As Alexander's parents I had thought them rather foolhardy for trading the freedoms of American life for the confines of communism, despite trying to understand their idealistic political beliefs. Reading about their young love totally changed this opinion, and their characters gained much more depth as I read about their youthfully innocent hopes for a better future.
Gina Attaviano is a delightful character. Like Tatiana, she sparkles with youthful innocence and energy, and I liked her tremendously. Her scheme to win Harry over and ingratiate him with her brother was nothing short of ingenious. I could picture her vividly, this colourful Sicilian peasant girl, so different from her stuffy Bostonian counterparts. No wonder half of Boston's bachelors would have fallen instantly in love with her. And how dreary a life it must have been for women at that time, despite their wealth and the nice clothes - not surprising that speakers like Emma Goldman drew such large crowds as women were fighting for recognition as equals in society. Simons does an excellent job at painting Boston society at the beginning of the 20th century - although I admit that a lot of the political details were lost on me, as I was mostly ignorant about Boston's historical past and famous characters and had to google them to understand their background (I am a little bit wiser now :). And whilst Gina and Harry's love story did not evoke the same roller coaster ride of emotions as the one I experienced reading the Bronze Horseman, I enjoyed every moment reading this book and finished it in one day.
My advice to readers is to read this story in its own right, not as a prequel to The Bronze Horseman - and let it take you on its own unique journey.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Children of Liberty: A Novel...
By D. S. HARDEN
I've just finished "Children of Liberty" by Paullina Simons.
I also read the reviews of the some of my fellow "Amazon Vine" bretheren to see what they thought before putting down my thoughts.
My take is as follows:
1. Well-written (I expect no less, from Ms. Simons!)
2. As this is fiction, I rather liked her melding in with the ideas/opinions of the times (socialism, communism, suffrage, even the Panama Canal!) and involving/weaving her characters into those topics to give them multi-dimensional life! It made me think of how anyone with even a little education could have been swayed to one side or another (with wide-ranging results). So, I didn't find the topics convered in this book boring at all!
3. Harry, at the age of 20, met his soul-mate - a girl of 14, who had made her mind up then - and there that he was the man for her. Yes, Harry had the good sense to avoid her - but couldn't - he could only delay the inevitable.
4. The interaction between Harry and his world, Gina and her world, and the intersection(s) therein made their lives pure joy, and pure hell. Harry had everything going for him - and threw it all away for (true) love? Not original - and in his case - costly. How much did Harry pay to have Gina in his world? Read on and find out! (Note: What have you paid for love - some might be able to relate - hopefully on a different scale - again - if you read, you'll get my meaning!)
5. If Paullina Simons pens a sequel "Children of Liberty", I will buy it - and read it! Yes, we who have read the "Bronze Horseman" series know what happened to Alexander's parents - we have limited detail - but, I would like a full treatement of that aspect of Harry and Gina's life - however short it was cut.
6. Finally, if this book was written first, would we be the Paullina Simons fans that we've become? I can't even hazard a guess! (Anyone remember the "Star Wars" movies from 77-83? We were treated to the "middle" of that story, also!) Folks, give the book a chance!
I rate "Children of Liberty" by Paullina Simons...Five stars!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Tedious
By Misfit
This book is a prequel to the wildly popular Bronze Horseman trilogy, a series I enjoyed a lot despite the need for a red-pencil guy (book #3 went on and on and on). Readers familiar with the back history of Alexander's parents have an expectation of what they're likely to find in this book, so I won't spoil for those new to the story. Unfortunately, this book ends where it should have been started, and I hear that there's at least one more book in the works to tell the story that fans of these books are waiting to read, a story that you aren't going to get in this book.
Children of Liberty begins in 1899 with the immigrant Attaviano family arriving in Boston Harbor to start a new life in America, and almost fifteen-year-old Gina is full of hope and promise. Harry Barrington and his friend Ben offer their assistance to the family (Harry's father owns several apartment houses that cater to Italian immigrants). The Attaviano family begin their new life with a family in a nearby town, and Harry returns to his privileged life in Boston. The bulk of the book then alternates between dinner party after dinner party at Harry's family home with endless conversations talking about politics and socialism, and the struggles of Gina and her family to make a go of things, and whether or not Gina should work or go to school.
*Yawn*
I'm the kind of reader that prefers a story to start when there's something interesting happening, and then backtrack and fill in the gaps. In this case, the book should have been started at page 375 and moved on from there (but then that's one less book to be sold). While I admire an author who uses dialog to set up the story instead of endless info dumps, the dialog here and the discussions contained therein were endless and mind-numbing. The same discussions over and over and over and over again, for almost 375 pages of this 422 page book. Add to this misery two of the most unlikable characters I've come across since those gawd-awful 50 Shades books. Harry is dull as dishwater and a spineless ninny to boot. I know Gina was a teenager for most of the book (we all know what teenagers are like), but she wastes no time in lying to her family and the nuns at school and sneaking out with a friend to meet the much older Harry and Ben in Boston. Perhaps they'll grow up and be more sympathetic characters in the next book, but you won't find much to care about here. Library only, then buy it if you love it.
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