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    Jane the Grabber

    By Jim Musgrave

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    A Civil War hero detective must help his brothel madame girlfriend discover crimes being committed by Hester “Jane the Grabber” Haskins before Haskins uses her Tammany Hall influence to take-over all the whorehouses in New York City and turn them into places where the “last sexual taboos” are permitted– including murder.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEMRE Publishing
    Release dateMay 12, 2015
    ISBN9781943456758
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      As usual, I received this book because somebody gave it to me for free. In this case, the author approached me directly with a copy of the whole trilogy as one volume. Despite this kind consideration, I give my candid opinions below, as will quickly become obvious.To the positive side, it's worth noting that the history covered in novel is the real meat of the matter. Musgrave describes a period of history and society that we just don't think about much. For most, history is about the wars and conflicts that punctuate time but this book describes a society in detail from the viewpoint of the common and everyday person. Each of his novels has a moralistic theme and this one delves at length into women's and children's sexual rights. With only one exception that I could find, Musgrave's history is accurate and well portrayed. As an educational tool, this book really shines.To the negative, like the author's other titles in this series, the writing comes up a bit short. Climactic moments seem to pass by with hardly a whit of description and at times come across as rather nonsensical. Also, the narrative thread of this novel takes a violent and perplexing turn in the last fifth of the book that seems weakly supported. The series to which this book belongs describes itself as 'Steampunk' but we see no hint of the genre until the last 30 pages of this 200 page volume. Personally, I think the book would stand better as straight historical fiction rather than trying to veer so fundamentally at the last minute.In summary, Jane the Grabber is a great slice of history but it tries to go off and be something else. The strength of the series is in its portrayal of the common man, not the "wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey" time travel bits, as Dr. Who might put it.