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dinoreader84
3.75 stars for me!
This book was a quick mystery written by a local author. My favorite part was reading a book set 10 miles from me (as the crow flies). I love how the author describes the area and makes you feel like you're in the boat with the characters.
Well done book!
This book was a quick mystery written by a local author. My favorite part was reading a book set 10 miles from me (as the crow flies). I love how the author describes the area and makes you feel like you're in the boat with the characters.
Well done book!
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This book was FULL of great stories, but I'm not gonna lie, some of them made me feel a little less than smart. There are some high level concepts/topics in these stories but they are VERY well done. My oldest kid will love them, he's very science-minded and I think would get a lot out of them.
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This book was a bit of a disappointment for me. I've read so many of her books and loved them but this one fell a bit flat for me.
Gosh I love this series. Another amazing book, probably my second favorite of the lot so far. Seanan made a rich, beautiful world, yet again.
I am not really sure how to review this book but what I *will* say is seeing a bunch of 1 and 2 star reviews from white men (and a few women) is kind of infuriating. "I don't care about the characters, they weren't well done enough..." blah blah blah. "The secondary characters were so forgettable..."
Have you, perhaps considered that might have been the intent? On a plantation a slave is just a slave to white masters and oversee-ers. They are all the same, if one dies...well golly it's a shame if it's the one that does the party trick, but otherwise? Meh, there are more black bodies to take their place.
The people complaining about the "action" not happening until further in? Well...I guess you don't consider the brutality of plantation life to be "action".
This book was hard. It was hard to read the n word so many times, it was hard to read about the hangings and the torture and the rape, it was hard to understand how this was the reality of life for slaves for SO MANY generations.
Still, as a white lady, I will never, ever understand how hard it was to LIVE these experiences. To have these experiences still impacting families to this day.
This is an important piece of literature and I will be having my children read it as well, once they are a little bit older.
Have you, perhaps considered that might have been the intent? On a plantation a slave is just a slave to white masters and oversee-ers. They are all the same, if one dies...well golly it's a shame if it's the one that does the party trick, but otherwise? Meh, there are more black bodies to take their place.
The people complaining about the "action" not happening until further in? Well...I guess you don't consider the brutality of plantation life to be "action".
This book was hard. It was hard to read the n word so many times, it was hard to read about the hangings and the torture and the rape, it was hard to understand how this was the reality of life for slaves for SO MANY generations.
Still, as a white lady, I will never, ever understand how hard it was to LIVE these experiences. To have these experiences still impacting families to this day.
This is an important piece of literature and I will be having my children read it as well, once they are a little bit older.
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