Title: The Thirteenth Husband
Author: Greer Macallister
Publisher: Sourcebboks Landmark
Genre: Biographical Historical Fiction
Happy Pub Day 8/6 and thank you to @bookmarked for the #gifted ARC of The Thirteenth Husband by Greer Macallister. I loved the author’s previous book The Arctic Fury and was so excited when I saw she had a new book coming out. While these books are totally different, I’ve come to expect a well researched novel by this author and she delivered again.
“I had no choice in the matter. Love’s arrow had struck, and I was helpless against it, pierced to the core.”
The Thirteenth Husband is a wildly compulsive read. It’s based on the life of Aimee Crocker, a heiress, from the late 1800s and early 1900s. She was a trailblazer for women who often went against the grain of society norms, starting with divorce. Something that was unheard of in those days. She was a fiercely independent woman who travelled all over, but I’m not going to lie, she was sort of an odd duck. After having a palm reading when she was young and being told she would have thirteen husbands and the thirteenth would bury her she sort of had an obsession with guides to the supernatural—mediums, clairvoyants, mystics, palm readings, and tarot. Her mysterious dreams only fueled this more.
Aimee’s story is tale that shows money and influence allowed her to be the person she wanted to be and not what society valued and deemed the “ideal women”. This is a true counterpart too many stories we see in this era. It’s a message that we all should take a stab at pursuing happiness and passion for things.
Don’t miss the author’s note for more…I was surprised to learn she stumbled on Aimee Crocker researching The Arctic Fury and while she didn’t work for that book, she couldn’t forget about her and thought she deserved her own book!
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