Distant Waves: A novel of the Titanic post#1

Distant Waves

A novel of the Titanic 

Suzanne Weyn 

Historical Fiction 

30/330

The book is set in the 18^th century and it’s based on the five Taylor sisters, Jane, Mimi, Amelie, Emma and Blythe. Their father recently died from the disease smallpox and their mother has been in deep sadness ever since. The story is being told by one of the sisters, Jane and the book begins as their mother Maude is trying to make contact with a dead woman called Mary Adelaide. Maude believes that she can talk to ghosts and spirits and that she could make a living from it. As Maude ends up talking to Mary’s spirit, her sister believes Maude, but Mary’s husband thinks that Maude is a fraud. One of Maude’s daughters, Mimi also believes that her mom is also sometimes a fraud. She would see her mother scribble under the table and then Maude would pretend that spirits wrote on the table. Maude believes at se can actually talk to spirits and hat moving somewhere where there would be more spiritualists, would help. Since Mary Adelaide’s sister believed Maude and that she can actually talk to spirits, she told her that she should move with her five daughters to Spirit Vale where many spiritualists lived.  One day while Mimi and Jane where at a park, the ground started to shake and everything started to spin. An earthquake started and everything started shake and Mimi started getting a bad headache. Luckily, a man named Nikola Tesla helped them. Tesla started explaining to them that he has been destroying things and that an earthquake machine was one of them. Both Mimi and Jane were amused and ever since Jane met Tesla, he has become her role model. 

 This novel is very different from previous ones I have read. It has an unusual beginning.  At the beginning, the story immediately takes us to the Taylor family and what they were doing at that moment in 1898. None of the character were introduced and all we find out was that someone is trying to contact a spirit, but we don't know who. Something else was that the novel is in the first point of view, but we don't know who is telling the story either. Even though I haven't read much, I'm enjoying the book so far. Its both unique and mysterious and also based on true events and historical characters. 

"Speak to me, Mary Adelaide Tredwell," she intoned in her full, throaty voice. "Cease your lonely haunting of this house to come to us!" 

This passage was at the very beginning of the novel and when I first read this passage, i didn't quite understand it. I really liked, not only this passage but the way the story started because at that i point I didn't know who was saying this and who Mary Adelaide was and it made it even more exciting to read.