A review by peytonktracy
Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson by Ann Turner

3.0

Narratively, this Dear America was fine. A little whirlwind, but interesting characters, interesting setting, and certainly a unique perspective on the primary historic conflict. But the conflict itself was thought provoking. My biased American education has positioned me to see the loyalists in colonial history as the oppressors, and and the colonists as the radical freedom fighters. So I was constantly hearing the narrator’s struggles as a oppressor claiming they are being punished or wronged as they are no longer allowed to oppress (with obvious connections to the present day). But I also couldn’t help but feel sympathy too, how upsetting it would have been to have your world changed because of conflicts over her head or possibility of fully understanding. I’m sure it’s just a normal case of “The world isn’t black and white but shades of grey” but I’m not used to these middle reader books making me think so hard!