Oh, Avi - you truly are a masterful writer and no doubt this was well researched and probably quite accurate but it just didn't do anything for me. And the ending - having to wait for another book - makes me sad.
The book started with Oliver Cromwell Pitts waking up to a flooding house and a father who has disappeared. His father did leave a note but the note got wet and Oliver can barely read any of it. He only knows his father went to London because of his sister who is there. How long will his father be gone and what is Oliver to do in the meantime. Well, he ends up in a home for orphans briefly, steals money from a sunken ship, is kidnapped by highwayman and forced to help with a robbery but he finally makes his way to London where he eventually finds his father and sister. But then they are all caught and arrested for various crimes. Eventually Oliver and his sister Charity are found guilty and are sent to America and the plan is that there father - who was able to buy his way out of his guilty verdict - will join them in America. But Oliver and Charity get separated and... That's where it ends - grr.
So for a historical fiction it was well researched and probably accurate. I just didn't find it super engaging - to be fair I did listen to it in very choppy increments though.
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