![]() ![]() ![]() Why so much of the book involves Lucy complaining about things like the weather and having to remind herself that Cass's life is worse than hers.Īll that said, there are seeds of a good story here. Why the main secondary character Cass is a nineteen-year-old, escaped slave who is pregnant for the third time with a child of the white master who rapes her. I don't understand why the book was written this way, why Lucy is sixteen-going-on-twelve. (And the back cover, which says reading level 5.0.) I know, this isn't a young adult novel: for proof, see the cover. The moralizing is heavy-handed even for middle-grade fiction but really doesn't work as young adult. ![]() Modern ideologies, especially the stereotypical Independent Woman Ahead of Her Time, creep into this historical novel rather often. She's caught in a love triangle and will have to choose between her suitors (and marry one of them) fairly soon, and yes, her dithering composes a large portion of the story. Its length is typical of middle-grade (175 pages), and protagonist Lucy behaves like a typical twelve-year-old. ![]()
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