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redcabinreads's review
3.0
The beginning of this book captured me. The relationship between Mattie and Elizabeth was so genuine and easy to understand/feel. I hoped for a complex story with the same emotional pull throughout, but instead was disappointed.
I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point in the book, it started to feel more like a script for a play to me. I felt like I didn’t really know the characters anymore and could easily see where the story was going.
Overall, not a bad book, but it didn’t leave me wishing for more.
I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point in the book, it started to feel more like a script for a play to me. I felt like I didn’t really know the characters anymore and could easily see where the story was going.
Overall, not a bad book, but it didn’t leave me wishing for more.
lindsey_bda's review against another edition
5.0
Really really good story! Although the ending was a bit contrived.
brb_reads's review against another edition
4.0
This was great on audio and a good way to end my reading year!
jayceecee0716's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 -- a good read, not much I can add that isn't on the cover.
Enjoyable but with so many 4 plus stars books out there, this could be relegated to a beach read.
Enjoyable but with so many 4 plus stars books out there, this could be relegated to a beach read.
nicinny's review
5.0
I really loved this book. It hooked me right away and could have easily been read in a sitting or two. It’s always sobering to read books about this time period, but the author told the story beautifully and you can help but champion for the main characters as the story goes along. I’m sorry it took me so long to get this book off my “to-read” list. It was great.
kimcheel's review
1.0
I had a hard time with this book. Sure, it's simple to read, and I read it in one afternoon, but the topic is anything but simple; so the read, IMO, should not have been so mickey mouse. It deals with such grave issues: slavery, making slave women breed just so white women can utilize them a a wet nurse, the attachment of a white child to their black wet nurse. Not to mention the conditions of those in slavery. This book made slavery almost decent. Sure, Mattie couldn't live with her husband, but they got to see each other every week. High five! /s. What about the loss of Mattie's mother when she was young? Just because people treated them as only 3/4 (or whatever that horrific fraction was) human doesn't mean they were. How about the trauma that led to Mattie's choices. It was just too neat. It didn't seem very informed. It felt like a white reader (such as myself) could read this, pat themselves on the back and say, "well so bully for us!" Why did we learn more about a white woman's relationship to Mattie than Mattie's actual children? It's like Mattie only existed in the book for Lisbeth's growth.
Gross.
Spoiler
Mattie and family escaped and lived a happy lifeGross.