Children of Liberty: A Novel Paperback – February 26, 2013

This is a great book and I enjoyed the story but was not happy with the ending. I would recommend it to anyone who likes a great story with historical events and characters.

Paullina writes a beautiful love story. It may have started out a bit slow but that's the way real life works sometimes. It also didn't hurt there was a line that paid respect to our beloved Tatia and Shura. The ending was a tiny abrupt for me but I guess we already know the outcome of Jane and Harry.....

This book started so well but failed to deliver more than an outline without substance. Parts were enthralling but the storyline skipped through important details and depth, developing the wrong characters and skipping years leaving holes. The ending was so abrupt it was like there was a date for deadline and the author was out of time. I was left very wanting!I hadn't realised it was a prequel to The Bronze Horseman Trilogy until afterwards and it simply wasn't in the same league. It was obviously written to have subsequent books but a lot more depth of the main characters could have made for a much better book! So disappointing after all her previous books.

The lessons of these stories about immigrants still are true. Many remain within their cultural communities, holding onto traditions to the point of being unwilling to learn the language or partcipate in the lives of their new lands, leaving their cultural communities only to work at subsistence employment.Then there are immigrants who learn the language of their new land, move out into the communities, try to find employment where they can advance or begin their own businesses. They take every opportunity that comes their way, recognizing those opportunities will probably require moving outside their cultural community.This book is about this kind of struggle and how several immigrants must deal with such decisions - opportunity vs. tradition and how Gina, a young Italian girl, must finally decide if she will break with the tradition her brother demands of her or follow her heart and assimilate to her new country and the man she has come to love, another immigrant who has become very successful.It tells about the struggles, the pitfalls and dangers young women faced at the end of the 19th and turn of the 20th century when immigrating, and the decisions they had to make.

I was pleasantly surprised with this book. After reading so many reviews slamming this book I had shied away from reading it. Its no where near the scale of TBH..but still a worth while read. I was disappointed at the ending, thought there was more to tell? Maybe there will be a follow up?

What happened to the writing style of the queen of emotion, Paullina Simons?I waited a long time for this book. I'm sorry to say I was very disappointed. I am a huge fan of the Bronze Horseman trilogy.This book was so boring, not what I'm use to reading from Paullina Simons. If it was written by a different author I would have put this book down. Instead I keep reading in hopes the story would explode into a great emotional read like the rest of her books.

Paullina Simons has a way of bringing her fans into the fold - of us becoming evangelical about her books. I'm like that. My friends are like that. We wait for the next one as she seems to write with agonising slowness, but finally it's released. Normally, the next few days are heaven as we lose ourselves in yet another unfolding story of a woman with impossible complexities and choices in her life.No so much with Children of Liberty. I actually put this book down for a couple of days as I read it - that is unheard of in a Paullina Simons book. Normally, I read as a stir the spaghetti sauce, as I iron and as I water the garden. But the normal depth of character for which she has made herself a name - well, it was missing. I didn't feel I knew any of the characters, let alone liked them or hated them or felt anything at all for them. They were just words on a page. What a shame. It was like she took Tatiana and tried to make her Sicilian, give her the fire, but all we had was a smoky ember that didn't warm anything.What a shame. Come back Paullina - give us rich impossible choices that face women - choices that make us totally empathise with their dilemmas, totally understand the wrong choices they make, totally live inside them. I wouldn't even want to have a pizza with these characters.

A back story in Alexander's parents which gives you an inkling of how the ended up in Russia. Harry and Gina are made for each other- both immature and thoughtless. Can't say that I like them much at the end of this story even though I am a fan of this series. I sort of know what happens to them but this story explains a lot. Well written and highly recommend it to BH fans.

Love this triology

I think I'd read just about anything connected with The Bronze Horseman series, but this stands well on its own. In Simon's true style, she bequeaths knowledge and insight as she tears your heart out. Loved this book.

I expected a better more engaging read. I was disappointed as her other books have been enjoyable

The book is amazing, had no doubt. Veryfast shipping, considering they sent the product from another country.Highly reccomended

Wer die Trilogie von Paullina Simons (The Bronze Horseman, Tatiana and Alexander, Summer Garden) gelesen hat, wird mit jeder Faser seines Herzens den Beginn der Liebesgeschichte von Gina (Jane) und Harry Barrington (Harold) verschlingen und nicht umhin kommen, an das schreckliche Ende zu denken, dass diese beiden Menschen erleiden. Doch beim Lesen dieses Buches bestechen sowohl die Schilderung der Ereignisse zum Wechsel des Jahrhunderts in den Staaten als auch die Spannung, wie sich eine Liebe entwickelt zwischen einem mittellosen Mädchen, das aus Italien einwanderte, aber genau weiß, was sie will, und dem jungen Mann aus einer vermögenden Familie, die einen der Pilgerväter zu ihren Vorfahren zählen kann, der seinen Lebensweg noch nicht so richtig vor sich sieht.