I think I might have found the toughest Sackett, yet, and it
isn’t a guy at all. Echo Sackett is on a journey to retrieve a small fortune
left to her by the descendants of one of Barnabas Sackett’s close friends. This
journey takes her from backwoods eastern Tennessee to pre-Civil War
Philadelphia and back again. Two parties of enemies try to take the money from
her, and another group of two men try to help her. In my opinion, she didn’t
need any help, at all! She defeated the bad guys without seeming to break a
sweat. In fact, the men who were supposed to be helping her were mostly just
getting in the way. She had to save them more than they ever saved her.
This novel was a short, quick read. It was fun,
but less grand, to my mind, than the other Sackett books I’ve read. Perhaps
this is because the entire tale lasted probably less than 10 days, maybe 2
weeks. The other books have spanned years and thousands of miles. The other
missing element is work. Echo talks about the work she does regularly to help
support her family, but we don’t really see her do any of it. In previous
Sackett novels, we see the Sacketts do extensive work, building forts, setting
up farms, and other major endeavors. I won’t knock Echo for this, since that
wasn’t the point of this story, but it did not call to my heart the way the
others have.
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