Champlain's Dream

For a book that started off describing in painful detail how neutral it would be, neither portraying Champlain a saint nor a demon, it pretty quickly portrayed him as the greatest man of his era, with no moral faults just occasional miscalculations.

Oddly patronizing in its writing, and weirdly edited (one favorite sentence was along the lines of “the war continued until the solider didn't want to continue”).

Also, perhaps not the fault of the author but a book like this could've really used a better narrator for the audiobook. Perhaps one who actually speaks French. The book got better in the second half because the narrator has a tendency to pronounce years like ‘1603' as ‘sixteen-three', which was super odd.