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A review by amrawinter
What Passes as Love by Trisha R. Thomas
4.0
3.5 Stars, rounded up to 4.
Dahlia is a plantation slave, one of thirteen children born from slave women and the plantation owner, Lewis Holt. As a child, she is taken into the plantation house to be a cinderella-esque sister/servant to her half sisters. On her sixteenth birthday, she gets caught up in an incident and escapes, becoming Lily Dove and agreeing to marry (within minutes of meeting) the handsome Timothy Ross. She goes to live on the Ross plantation, and has to try to live with her deception, regardless of what happens.
I really struggled with rating this one, because there was so much I liked about it, but the ending felt super rushed and a lot of it felt unbelievable. Without giving anything away, I especially struggled with Ryland's character arc, and who agrees to marry someone they literally met five minutes ago?
Dahlia is a plantation slave, one of thirteen children born from slave women and the plantation owner, Lewis Holt. As a child, she is taken into the plantation house to be a cinderella-esque sister/servant to her half sisters. On her sixteenth birthday, she gets caught up in an incident and escapes, becoming Lily Dove and agreeing to marry (within minutes of meeting) the handsome Timothy Ross. She goes to live on the Ross plantation, and has to try to live with her deception, regardless of what happens.
I really struggled with rating this one, because there was so much I liked about it, but the ending felt super rushed and a lot of it felt unbelievable. Without giving anything away, I especially struggled with Ryland's character arc, and who agrees to marry someone they literally met five minutes ago?