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emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
In 'The Confessions of Frannie Langton' by Sara Collins, Collins weaves one woman's story set against the murders she has been accused of committing. We meet Frannie Langton as a condemned woman but there is far more to her story than what it appears. We follow Frannie from her childhood on a plantation in Jamaica to how she came to London and to serve the very people she is accused of killing. Through Frannie's story we begin to unravel what actually happened as well as getting to know her personally.
Collins does a great job of setting up the mystery of what actually happened to Mr. and Mrs. Benham and then pulling the reader back through time to explore Frannie's life. She paints a frank picture of what it was like to be mixed raced in the early 1800s from life on a plantation to life in London. Collins never shies away from exploring the brutality but also the joy that Frannie finds in her life. I came to care for Frannie just as much as I wanted to understand what had truly happened in the present day of the novel.
'The Confessions of Frannie Langton' is a very good historical mystery with fascinating but flawed characters and an engaging mystery at its core.
Collins does a great job of setting up the mystery of what actually happened to Mr. and Mrs. Benham and then pulling the reader back through time to explore Frannie's life. She paints a frank picture of what it was like to be mixed raced in the early 1800s from life on a plantation to life in London. Collins never shies away from exploring the brutality but also the joy that Frannie finds in her life. I came to care for Frannie just as much as I wanted to understand what had truly happened in the present day of the novel.
'The Confessions of Frannie Langton' is a very good historical mystery with fascinating but flawed characters and an engaging mystery at its core.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Death, and Drug use
Moderate: Suicide, Slavery, Racism, Confinement, and Miscarriage
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