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bv94 's review for:
The Indigo Girl
by Natasha Boyd
I would give it 0.5 stars
I wish I had good things to say about this book but this is one of the most bull crap historic fiction I have read. Eliza Lucas is portrayed holier than Mother Mary, more innocent than a little baby yet smarter than Einstein, could have easily abolished slavery, just such a perfect human the likes we have never seen before nor will we ever see one in future (and mind you all this for a 16 year old). Books like this irk me so much, it is so whitewashed that will leave you wondering what slaves (who are conveniently referred to as servants) ever complained about. In real life she never gave them credit and owned so many; if the story is even remotely true she could have freed them; she used them or rather abused their knowledge for her own gain. . The fictional plot of Eliza and a slave Ben(oit) love story is barf worthy. Why? Why even write about something that was so far from truth. The whole book exalts Eliza in such a light that it is so grating. I wanted to know if the actual indigo story instead I got total BS. At 16-17 Eliza did accomplish quite a bit and wish it would have given a realistic story rather than this book.
Ughhh.
I hate giving such a bad review but just couldn’t understand why was it written so poorly so as to distort truth soooo much.. Does the white washing, white savior attitude appeal to so many??
Just the serenity prayer by the real Eli(te)za was enough for me but I let myself go through the torture of reading the whole book. It doesn’t redeem itself from the revisionist version till the very end, alas!
I wish I had good things to say about this book but this is one of the most bull crap historic fiction I have read. Eliza Lucas is portrayed holier than Mother Mary, more innocent than a little baby yet smarter than Einstein, could have easily abolished slavery, just such a perfect human the likes we have never seen before nor will we ever see one in future (and mind you all this for a 16 year old). Books like this irk me so much, it is so whitewashed that will leave you wondering what slaves (who are conveniently referred to as servants) ever complained about. In real life she never gave them credit and owned so many; if the story is even remotely true she could have freed them; she used them or rather abused their knowledge for her own gain. . The fictional plot of Eliza and a slave Ben(oit) love story is barf worthy. Why? Why even write about something that was so far from truth. The whole book exalts Eliza in such a light that it is so grating. I wanted to know if the actual indigo story instead I got total BS. At 16-17 Eliza did accomplish quite a bit and wish it would have given a realistic story rather than this book.
Ughhh.
I hate giving such a bad review but just couldn’t understand why was it written so poorly so as to distort truth soooo much.. Does the white washing, white savior attitude appeal to so many??
Just the serenity prayer by the real Eli(te)za was enough for me but I let myself go through the torture of reading the whole book. It doesn’t redeem itself from the revisionist version till the very end, alas!