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A review by mellabella
Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
3.0
I liked this book. It's readable and engaging.
It's a fast read. Maybe too fast to get to know the characters the way you should.
Or maybe it's the way the chapters move by by jumping ahead few years that makes it hard to get to know the characters.
But you get to know enough.
Set during slavery, Mattie becomes Elizabeth's (Lisbeth's) wet nurse, substitute mother, caretaker, and friend.
She has just given birth to a child of her own. But unable to take care of her child, or even see him that often... She becomes attached to her "mistress". Her son is sold away at a young age to a brutal plantation owner. He escapes and Mattie is whipped in his place. After giving birth to another child, she escapes.
What was Mattie's life like after she escaped?
It seemed as good as it can get for free Blacks. But, it would have been nice to get a little more.
The beginning of the book is more Mattie centric. After she escapes, it's mostly from Lisbeth's pov until the end.
It managed to make me care about the characters. Even though you don't know them that well.
I also had other issues. It might have represented the Southern, slave owning high class society the right way. But the brutality and horrors of slavery was not.
It's a fast read. Maybe too fast to get to know the characters the way you should.
Or maybe it's the way the chapters move by by jumping ahead few years that makes it hard to get to know the characters.
But you get to know enough.
Set during slavery, Mattie becomes Elizabeth's (Lisbeth's) wet nurse, substitute mother, caretaker, and friend.
She has just given birth to a child of her own. But unable to take care of her child, or even see him that often... She becomes attached to her "mistress". Her son is sold away at a young age to a brutal plantation owner. He escapes and Mattie is whipped in his place. After giving birth to another child, she escapes.
What was Mattie's life like after she escaped?
It seemed as good as it can get for free Blacks. But, it would have been nice to get a little more.
The beginning of the book is more Mattie centric. After she escapes, it's mostly from Lisbeth's pov until the end.
It managed to make me care about the characters. Even though you don't know them that well.
I also had other issues. It might have represented the Southern, slave owning high class society the right way. But the brutality and horrors of slavery was not.