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Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
3.0

The cover said it was great for people who loved The Help. To assume that that there is any relationship between these two novels is in my opinion, racist. It implies that that any two books about African Americans in servitude are somehow equivalent. These novels were separated by 100 years and some quality, no offense to Ms Perkins-Valdez. My mini rant is directed to the publishers or whomever is responsible for the banner across the front of my book. That being said, this was a decent novel. If you find yourself dragging in the first summer, hold on until you go back in time to the start of Lizzie's story. From there on out, the novel is very good. Maybe a different path could have been taken with the first part....but I did like it overall.