Review: A VERY brief teaser!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2014
SPOILER ALERT! Don't read on if you don't want to read what this "teaser" book is about!It is 1861 and Emily Harrison is trying to run the farm by herself after her parents died four months ago. We find her attempting to cook dinner for her beau, Matthew Norton and her chaperones, the pastor and his wife. The goose is on fire, the biscuits are blackened and as she goes to open the window to let out the smoke, the blackberry pie falls out the window upside down!As this is occurring a young Negro boy arrives at the door with the understanding that this is a Safe House. Emily's parents used to work with the Underground Railroad and Emily hopes to continue with that. She quickly directs the boy to the barn before her visitors arrive.After dinner that night, Matthew proposes only to follow that by saying that he will marry her in the autumn after returning from "whoopin' those Johnny Rebs." Emily also learns that her house/farm is being foreclosed on. What are her job options? Bennington Plantation as a governess.Chapter One of The Quaker and the Rebel is included and we see Emily accepting the job at Bennington's making her anti-slavery views very obvious. She also meets Alexander Hunt who is quite a character.I have NOT read The Quaker and the Rebel but if the first chapter is anything to judge by it is going to be excellent!I do not usually write "spoiler" reviews but I know how some folks view "teaser" books. This "Free Short Story" does NOT have an ending! It is not independent of the full book, it just gives you a very help background into who Emily is and why at the beginning the "real" book she is where she is. SO I do not advise purchasing this "teaser" unless you plan to read the rest of the books in the series!