The Hangman's Daughter eBook Review

Ok. So first off, I don't get why this book is called The Hangman's Daughter. She's hardly in it. Sure she get kidnapped by the bad guys, but other than that she pretty much stands around yelling that she wants to marry the surgeon and not her hangman cousin the next town over. The story is this: some kids are being hunted and killed and they think the midwife did it and so the hangman is charged with torturing her and getting her to confess, but he thinks she's innocent, so he sets about trying to find the real killer.

I swiped through the last 150 pages of this book. I wanted to find out who was killing these kids, but I wasn't interested in the details. I don't know if it's because the book was translated from the German or if it's the same in the original German, but the writing was trite and simple. The characters were simple. I don't like books that count on my knee jerk reaction that blood letting is bad to make a character bad. I don't like books that count on my reaction that the person who is enlightened and just 'knows' that blood letting is bad is good. That's what this book did. And I definitely am not interested in reading about women being killed for being witches.

Overall, this books rates an eh, I finished it.