What was it...

I am just not sure what it was about this book that made me not like it very much.  Every time I don't like a book, I try to find a way to like it.  Chasing Secrets was just...rushed maybe?  Or maybe it was "this could be so good!" or "oh man it is so ALMOST there" that it is a bigger disappointment that it doesn't rise to that possibility and so I end up being harder on it than I would otherwise.

I mean, here is something totally new to me, anyway.  I had no idea about the plague being in San Francisco.  But I just couldn't get into as much as I should have.  The main character, Lizzie, is thirteen and the daughter of a doctor.  He is this super-peaceful dude who doesn't charge people who can't pay him.  Lizzie's mom is dead.  She has an other brother who is a bit of a rebel.  The family lives with her aunt and uncle who are part of high society, her uncle runs a newspaper, the rival of which is owned by Hearst.

There is a lot that is really good in this book.  For some reason, it just didn't move me all that much.  But I would still recommend it.  It probably was just me.  Maybe I just listened to it too quickly.

I mean there was a lot here, the whole idea of yellow journalism, the treatment of Chinese immigrants, classicism, women's rights, you name it, you know?  I just didn't it went deep enough on any one theme or issue.