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This book was recommended to me a ways back to check out for my 'all the near death angst' list and it really only warranted my 'satisfying dash of peril' one instead...
Unfortunately this book suffered from a double whammy of did NOT age well and being a cheese-fest.
Set on a plantation where the hero is the ideal benevolent master (white savior sadness), the slaves are all happy (and their patterns of speech captured upsettingly) and there's a psychotic 1/8 black half-sister hellbent on taking over the plantation going around shanking and shooting people all felt really, uncomfortably wrong in 2020.
Personal feelings about that aside, Nicholas' sister's side plot was distracting and I didn't care about her at all. Nicholas is kind of oblivious and really self-serving. Plus with the Mary Sue heroine it was just a ridiculous utter cheese-fest...
This book was recommended to me a ways back to check out for my 'all the near death angst' list and it really only warranted my 'satisfying dash of peril' one instead...
Unfortunately this book suffered from a double whammy of did NOT age well and being a cheese-fest.
Set on a plantation where the hero is the ideal benevolent master (white savior sadness), the slaves are all happy (and their patterns of speech captured upsettingly) and there's a psychotic 1/8 black half-sister hellbent on taking over the plantation going around shanking and shooting people all felt really, uncomfortably wrong in 2020.
Personal feelings about that aside, Nicholas' sister's side plot was distracting and I didn't care about her at all. Nicholas is kind of oblivious and really self-serving. Plus with the Mary Sue heroine it was just a ridiculous utter cheese-fest...