Sheldon Maxwell

This book captures the religious experience and hardships of the pilgrims in a positive way. There’s a lot of negativity surrounding the conservatism of the pilgrims, and this does a good job of portraying their true characters.

Inane YA historical fiction with a Christian bent. After reading three quarters of this book, I had to give up. The story is chock-full of poorly drawn characters, and the writing is poor (it took 3 authors to do this?). The lead character of Nate Donovan is not so much a hero as an impetuous teen with good luck - or maybe he's blessed.