This book was hard to read on a lot of levels. Like obviously yes it's hard and necessarily to confront the horrors of slavery, but also this was slower-paced and lyrically written such that it did take me a long time to get through it.

I will also warn that there is some medium-explicit sexual content including sexual assault, like kind of obviously given the topic but also noting the explicitness mostly just because given some of Rita Williams-Garcia's other works like [b:P.S. Be Eleven|16240734|P.S. Be Eleven (Gaither Sisters, #2)|Rita Williams-Garcia|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388718375l/16240734._SY75_.jpg|21856221] I might have expected this book to be pretty tween friendly but I'd recommend it more to upper teens.