Disclaimer: I received this book from the publishing company. Thanks! All opinions are my own.
Book Series: Standalone
Rating: 3/5
Diversity: One of the main characters is African-American
Publication Date: February 19, 2019
Genre: Historical Fiction
Recommended Age: 18+ (violence, war, gore)
Publisher: Permuted Press
Pages: 320
Synopsis: On a marshy Brooklyn battlefield on August 27, 1776, four hundred men from Baltimore, Maryland assembled to do battle against a vastly superior British army. Seemingly overnight, these young soldiers had matured from naïve teenagers to perhaps the most important, yet most forgotten, citizen soldiers in all of American history: “America’s 400 Spartans.”
Saving Washington follows young Joshua Bolton and his childhood friend Ben Wright, a freed black man, as they witness British tyranny firsthand, become enraptured by the cause, and ultimately enlist to defend their new nation in a battle that galvanized the American nation on the eve of its birth.
Chris Formant’s gripping tale blends real-life historical figures and events with richly developed fictional characters in a multi-dimensional world of intrigue, romance, comradeship, and sacrifice, transporting us two-and-a-half centuries back in time to the bustling streets of Baltimore and the bloody, smoke-filled carnage of battle in Brooklyn.
Review: I thought the book did well with the world building and with the writing. The plot was also intriguing and I liked the part where an actual battle was described.
However, I did feel like this book was really slow and the characters weren’t that interesting to me in the end. Maybe it was just me, I was having an off weekend.
Verdict: If you like History you’ll love this.
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