A review by shelflife
Sweetsmoke by David Fuller

5.0

Wonderful story...has a little bit of everything in it. History (Civil war), anti-war message, slavery, plantation life, love story, detective, murder mystery, and all the while you are learning about a truely awful time in our history. It's bad enough about slavery, but imagine for a moment being a slave and having the intelligence that can outwit everyone around you, including your "master". Although it was difficult for me to get into the heads of the white plantation owners. I just could not relate to their thinking about the ownership of another human being. This is not a subject I could read over and over again. It's like they forgot what being human is.

Recommend this book highly. Well written.