Reviews for The Deed

The average rating for The Deed based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-10-30 00:00:00 Nicole Peake Absolutely LOVED it! A great first novel, wish he would write more!

Review # 2 was written on 2012-02-25 00:00:00 Irving Fong Hasn't this book already been written? Keith Blanchard's premise in The Deed is that the fabled sale of Manhattan Island by the Manhata Indians to the Dutch is actually incorrect. Instead, the island was sold a second time by the starving Dutch colony to a Dutch man who sympathized with the Manhata, married a Manhata woman and insisted on a deed for the island so that he and his heirs could hold it for the native peoples who did not understand these legal machinations. It's an interesting premise, but one that was explored 4 years earlier by Larry Jay Martin in his book Sounding Drum . Interestingly, it was also a quirky comedy, it also involved a romance, the mafia and Indian casinos. Regardless of those similarities, this book should be judged on its own merits... Read more at: