pickIt took me a bit to get into this novel but once I got past a hundred pages or so I flew thru it. It takes place in 1860 in Louisiana and is about the Gilbert family and their plantation. It is a YA novel but I would only recommend it to older teens and adults.
pickThis was a lovely read, although a bit confusing at times. A women is taken from Africa to the Caribbean Island of Martinique, as a slave on a sugar plantation. She births two children and so the family saga begins. This book crosses many continents and centuries but not in chronological order, which is why I was sometimes out of sorts. I enjoyed the last half of the novel as it was easier to follow the family lines. #BorrowNotBuy
pick3.5 ⭐
This story follows many generations of a family and the surrounding town folk on a small island off of Sicily.
pickThe first book in the Cazalet Chronicles introduces us to a huge cast of characters, but the beautifully written vignettes of each one means you feel you know them in no time. Perfect comfort reading with four more books awaiting me 📚
"He was woken by a scratching at the window shutters."
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pickThe back cover makes this seem more like a mystery novel that focuses on the community after two women disappear. I don't think that does this justice - this is about Lulu & Doris and how their lives unfold after Bette Parsons & Alice McFee go missing. It follows them over 40-ish years and then flips to tell you the other side of the story, which was brilliant. A slow, methodical read that unfolds in a very deliberate way.
[with cruel disdain] 'You'll adjust to it, Mary. You'll adjust to all the losses in your life because you care only for the one thing that cannot leave you. Betray you? Most certainly. Let you down, suck you dry . . . absolutely, but it will never leave you. In a way, you're luckier than any of us.'
