by Kathleen Grissom
FOUR AND A HALF OUT OF FIVE STARS
When
a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a
tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her
family. Orphaned while on board ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia
arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with
the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's
illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family,
though she is set apart from them by her white skin.
Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. Lavinia finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk.
GREAT BOOK! This book had been on my list to read for a while. I could not put the book down. It made you go through literally every single emotion. I found myself wanting so badly to yell at the characters to tell the secret to save one another. It was a book that you thought you might guess the ending to. Until you realize you had it all wrong at the end. Then you want to read it all over again with the new understanding. I’m being vague and I know it. Mainly so that you will get this book and read it.
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