Jamestown

Title: Jamestown

Author: Matthew Sharpe

Pages: 416

Genre: Historical Fiction?

Grade: D

Synopsis: This story is a retelling of the Jamestown story (i.e. the first English settlement in the New World), but it is set in a post-apocalyptic world.  Jamestown seems to be in the same location as it currently is (in Eastern Virginia), and the story spans from the Jamestown area up the coast to New York City, which has mostly been destroyed from how we know the city today.  A group of settlers set out from Manhattan, looking for a place to settle and create a trading post for oil when they come to the Jamestown area.  The groups communications officer starts a strange romance with Pocahontas in an effort to become trading partners with the Indians in the area.

My Review: I didn't really get this book.  It was a bizarre mixture of just about everything including rap and Ebonics and history and politics.  Too much of the humor felt forced and it took me far too long to get into the story.