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susieseeker 's review for:
The Indigo Girl
by Natasha Boyd
Wow - this was so well received and I can't even finish the thing.
It was recommended by a friend of mine - and now I'll take their future recommendations with a grain of salt.
It's just so bad. One other reviewer described it as a “slave-holder girl boss” book, which is bang on.
My objections to the book however do NOT solely rest on the fact that it's about a benevolent white girl slave owner, toiling away against the odds on her plantation in the deep south.
It's just so clichéd!. The protagonist is a headstrong, determined (nothing wrong with that) feminist living in the early 1700s. Did such people exist? I guess so - but she has been embued with strongly 21st century values. Then we have the simpering mother who only lives to have her daughter married. The benevolent father who leaves the plantation operations to his daughter when he leaves for an extended period of time (I think he dies too but I didn't get that far). And the overseer who is a complete menacing lout and is the definition of evil. The slaves form one big happy family, largely due to the protagonist's benevolence. And she has a strong friendship with an African American boy/young man that seems highly unlikely given the times.
I gather that this is based on a real person, and therefore there is a fabulous book to be written about her. This isn't it.
It was recommended by a friend of mine - and now I'll take their future recommendations with a grain of salt.
It's just so bad. One other reviewer described it as a “slave-holder girl boss” book, which is bang on.
My objections to the book however do NOT solely rest on the fact that it's about a benevolent white girl slave owner, toiling away against the odds on her plantation in the deep south.
It's just so clichéd!. The protagonist is a headstrong, determined (nothing wrong with that) feminist living in the early 1700s. Did such people exist? I guess so - but she has been embued with strongly 21st century values. Then we have the simpering mother who only lives to have her daughter married. The benevolent father who leaves the plantation operations to his daughter when he leaves for an extended period of time (I think he dies too but I didn't get that far). And the overseer who is a complete menacing lout and is the definition of evil. The slaves form one big happy family, largely due to the protagonist's benevolence. And she has a strong friendship with an African American boy/young man that seems highly unlikely given the times.
I gather that this is based on a real person, and therefore there is a fabulous book to be written about her. This isn't it.