A review by lindzieh
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

2.0

This was kind of a boring read for me. Too many people dieing, too many predictable events, and too much backwoods, southern language. I had a hard time reading the book solely because of the way the author decided to narrate the story in this fashion. The saddest part of the book for me was the fact they changed the name of Cold Sassy to some boring name - Progressive City - and cut down the last sassafras tree. I was not surprised by Uncle Campbell's suicide or my Love Simpson's father raping her. It just seemed predictable. The church going people seemed rather judgmental, but maybe this is just how it was back then.