Many Sparrows
by Lori Benton (Goodreads Author)
I
loved this book! Clare Inglesby is left
with just her little boy, waiting for her husband to bring help. She doesn’t’ find out til later that he was
attacked and stripped of his hair by a passing Indian. She went into labor and left her boy long
enough to be out of sight while giving birth because she felt her son didn’t
need to hear her suffering labor pains waiting for the new baby to be
born. Unbeknownst to her a passing
Indian took her son Jacob and she is willing to do anything to get him
back! She is found having labor by Frontiersman
and adopted Shawnee Jacob Ring. He
promises Clare to take her into the wilderness to find the Indian’s that have
taken her son. They find the Shawnee
party that took her boy, but it Is too late.
Jacob’s own sister who had lost her child and husband and has been very
sad, and the ones who had her boy gave him to her in order to cheer her up, and
the adoption ceremony has already happened.
There is no real way that Jacob can get her boy back after that
happened. Jacob was renamed Many Sparrows, after a small story in the bible. Rain Crow absolutely does not want to give up
her new son. Clare was very upset and
had risked her life many times with the Indians trying to get close to her son. She has no idea that her Uncle who had been
expecting the little family for a long while and he is looking for her. She won’t leave without her son. This book was very interesting in that it
told of many traditions of the Indians and how they lived. The author describes all of it very
well. Clare is so brave and she lives
among the Indians for quite a while with the hopes that Rain Crow will realize
that Jacob will not behave and be her son, he’s seen his Mother knows she is
alive and she’ll do anything to get her son back! She had a daughter on the trail and she doesn’t
hardly look at her daughter only doing very little to care for her, just breast
feeding her, but she lays her aside while looking for her son Jacob. This book was such a gift to me, it is inspirational,
with many quotes from the bible, and the realism of living among the Indians
gave the book such truth! I loved this book and gave it five stars.
"I received this book
from Blogging for Books for this
review." This is my review as promised.
ABOUT MANY SPARROWS
Either she and her children would emerge from that wilderness together, or none of them would…
In 1774, the Ohio-Kentucky frontier pulses with rising tension and brutal conflicts as Colonists push westward and encroach upon Native American territories. The young Inglesby family is making the perilous journey west when an accident sends Philip back to Redstone Fort for help, forcing him to leave his pregnant wife Clare and their four-year old son Jacob on a remote mountain trail.
When Philip does not return and Jacob disappears from the wagon under the cover of darkness, Clare awakens the next morning to find herself utterly alone, in labor and wondering how she can to recover her son…especially when her second child is moments away from being born.
Clare will face the greatest fight of her life, as she struggles to reclaim her son from the Shawnee Indians now holding him captive. But with the battle lines sharply drawn, Jacob’s life might not be the only one at stake. When frontiersman Jeremiah Ring comes to her aid, can the stranger convince Clare that recovering her son will require the very thing her anguished heart is unwilling to do—be still, wait and let God fight this battle for them?
About Lori Benton:
Lori Benton was raised east of the Appalachian Mountains, surrounded by early American history going back three hundred years. Her novels transport readers to the eighteenth century, where she brings to life the Colonial and early Federal periods of American history. When she isn’t writing, reading, or researching, Lori enjoys exploring and photographing the Oregon wilderness with her husband. She is the author of Burning Sky, recipient of three Christy Awards, The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn, Christy-nominee The Wood’s Edge, and A Flight of Arrows.
