Allapattah

A disappointment After reading A Land Remembered, this one was a disappointment. It didn’t have the sweeping feel or the grand visual descriptions of Land Remembered. If I’d read this book first, I may have liked it better.......more

The only thing keeping this from a five star review is an unfortunate bias—I read it after A Land Remembered, which is easily one of my top five books of all time. Still, as a huge fan of Patrick Smith, I immensely enjoyed this book (my kindle did not give a page count, but I wouldn’t be surprised i......more

I enjoyed this one. It’s been years since I’ve read Land Remembered, so I don’t have that in recent memory to compare it to. But this was good as well. His writing is to the point without a bunch of flowery language but yet the story is descriptive enough that I could picture it all. Some of my girl......more

I have recently visited the Everglades and the Seminole Museum, so it was neat to read this book and hear about the places, ecosystems, and some of the Seminole culture that I have been seeing and hearing about. Toby Tiger tries to cling to the old way of life which he sees becoming more and more ou......more

If you’re looking for the next “A Land Remembered” this isn’t it. This was a good read, but the story is very simple, short, and predictable a bit. It is still good, it’s probably an accurate depiction of Seminole life in early FL. Interesting to say the least, but not going to make you call your fr......more