I appreciate the publisher allowing me to read this book. I found this book a delightful story really interesting and I think you will too. Fortune is a book that I honestly was interested in because of it's beautiful cover. It starts in in Berlin when Napoleon takes over the city.
From there it shows so many people and events over the next years that it is often hard to follow along. There is a lot going on and I found that very interesting but I would have liked to have learned more about the characters. Then the door closed and she was gone. She has slipped off our map. You never know which character will turn up again in what far-flung place or disappear forever.
Berlin, Suriname, Australia, and all points between. Battlefields, jungle rivers, plantations. Far out, indeed. Fortune means everything here: riches, luck, success. Who has, or will achieve, what? Some characters recur from beginning to end one is years old? There are petty thieves, whores, smugglers, and slave traders. Animal collectors and dealers. Soldiers and armies. One of them is also a philosopher. It begins in , with Napoleon entering Berlin on his big white horse, and ends in France in , in the middle of WWI.
But there are flashbacks and memories that spin the stories around each other. The window to the street is open, and the coupling pair are seen by a few people passing by. They coincidentally appear later in the story, sometimes a world away.
One of them is another young woman. Her skin was sensitive to even the thought of a touch; her nights were long and sleepless in her transforming.
