I love apes (bonobos) and I loved Water for Elephants by this author, but was a little disappointed in this book. It was interesting, but I would have liked more information about the apes and their relationships.

A fun, exciting read for your reluctant readers! Lots of action and adventure.

It took me and some of our other book club members awhile to get into this book. Once we did, the book was pretty good. We had lots of questions at our discussion, but the discussion was slow moving compared to many of the other books that we have read.

This was a very interesting book, but slow moving and dry. We felt like we were reading a history text book. If your group is into lots of historical detail, this book would be good for you. We enjoyed many of the quotes in the book and admired Cleopatra in many ways, but felt overwhelmed with all of the details.

Our group enjoyed this book. We truly liked all of the characters! There is lots to discuss in this book particularly the relationships. The English teachers in our group enjoyed the Melville and Moby Dick references. It was a good choice for a spring meeting because it deals with baseball. It has been said that "baseball is a metaphor for life." We agreed after reading this book!

Our group enjoyed talking about some of the situations brought up by this book. Does birth order play a part in who we are? What defines when we truly become "adults?" Is the influence from our families always a part of us?

Since we have a few English teachers in the group, they especially liked the Shakespeare references and quotes.

None of us liked any of the sisters that much. Read the book and see what your club thinks!

We enjoyed the book but felt as though there were quite a few characters introduced and that it might be a good idea to create some type of graphic to see the relationships.

A fun book for those who love books and literature. The story is about a bookseller whose life is changed when a baby is left in his bookstore! Our club loved talking about this book and the other literary references mentioned. (Short stories and novels)

A fun book for clubs to discuss. We all loved Flavia!

A fun book to discuss.

We enjoyed discussing this book. It had something for everyone..murder, mystery, family! We feel that everyone had a "lacy eye" at sometime to avoid seeing things they don't want to see.

This was an enjoyable book with a good, interesting story based on actual historical facts. Our group had fun discussing it. We actually liked many of the characters too!