The Kari AnnAlysis

Close your eyes and think back to Salem, 1692. If you’re having a hard time, let me make it easier for you. The olden days, when you only got a bath every couple of weeks, if that. No heat, no electricity, no fast food. Yeah, that was a life that people really lived. A recent study shows that Christianity is decreasing at such a rate in the US that Atheists are actually outnumbering Christians. Also, not even a fact in 1692. Actually, religion and work were the two focuses of life at this time. The women cooked, cleaned, sewed. The men fetched firewood and did outdoors work.

Now that you have an idea of life, imagine this: the Devil comes to the little town of Salem. A group of young girls start having “fits”. They blame the fits on witches in the town who get their powers from the Devil. What they don’t know is that Lidda really has seen the Devil and she is on to these girls and questioning if there is honestly behind these attacks.

Wow! This is a fantastic book. I was drawn to it originally because I’ve always been intrigued by the Salem Witch Trials and that was the premise of this book. But what I didn’t realize until I was done reading is how little I actually knew about the trials. Yes, I knew that people were accused and hanged, but I didn’t realize that it was all based on lies by the young girls.

In this book, Turner wove fiction into the story of the trials. The main character and her family are fiction, but all the other players and story are historical and real. I think that was one of the things I loved most about this book. I learned so much about a historical period, but the little bit of fiction kept me reading and forgetting that it was really a historical book.

I give Father of Lies 5 bookmarks and highly suggest it to other readers who have an interest in the trials.

ISBN:978-0061370854
Published: February 8, 2011
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Kari got this book from Around the World Tours