Review: Unusual but intense!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2013
Written in diary form, this book (without being redundant to the other reviews) chronicles the story and later life of Hope. She doesn't start using the journals until her 30's. Years of child abuse darkened her heart and she does not want to bring a child into such a controlling and dark world. Her husband finds her attempts at birth control but it is not her husband who gives her her first child. This man later faces the consequences and places a child without a biological father.You will read the intimate writings of a woman coming to terms with her own life, slavery, boredom, and further in there is murder, vigilante justice and sadness.Hope is strong and wild beneath that exterior that has been marred. Do not let the diary format fool you. It reads like a full-on novel and is incredibly well-written.  This story was very suited for diary format because it is like walking around the 19th century inside another woman's mind.Details are spot on, and the death of the character leads to a continued journal journey by her husband as well as related articles such as newspaper clippings and poetry.