Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt

 This is a wonderful book that for me really blurred the lines between fiction and nonfiction. I knew when I requested it that it was a fiction book but the set up of the story and the author's writing absolutely gave it a feel of history and reality that was incredible. 

The crossing of the diary of Margaret Parker and the oral retelling that Hattie LaCour participated in was excellently done and really enhanced the story. The sprinkling in of other historical anecdotes like newspaper clippings and quotes from other books really created an atmosphere of believability that really blurred the lines between non-fiction and fiction. 

This audiobook runs about 14 hours and once you start it, you don't want to pause it. You can feel your heart race as the narrator talks about the heists that were pulled off and the contrasting of the stories by the two different narrators shows how each person has their own story of the same events and how that can happen. 

There is a feeling of sorrow and sadness that permeates the stories that the narrators tell as they are speaking about a time that they know will be coming to an end soon and that they knew would never last. As women in the west, they were free in a way but it could be gone in an instant and for them it was.

I received this audiobook free from NetGalley and Hatchett Audio to review and this is my honest review. 

Five out of five stars.