I generally enjoy stories with a Native American setting and because of this I wanted to like Maud's Line, but unfortunately did not. The story, especially the beginning, read like an early draft to me, not yet fully flushed out. At one point I even wondered if it was a
…more children's book, given the sparsity of details and the lack of writing complexity. I never developed strong feelings for any of the characters, good or bad. I also must confess to hating the ending, to the point that I almost threw the book across the room when I finished it, both because it seemed too pat an ending and because Maud did something that was totally contradictory to advice she had recently been given from her family. (less)