Review: Worth Reading
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 2, 2012
I love reading historical romances with a black female lead. Although this story took place during an ugly period in America's history, it was delivered with a very decent sense of realism. Sure there were a few inconsistencies with language and detail, but that didn't detract from the overall plot: runaway female slave escapes her captors by posing as a boy and finding work on a ship. She and ship's captain fall in love and learn to live with the realities of their social status and politics of that era.This book was full of rich imagery that transforms the reader back in time. What I appreciated most was there was no sugar-coating of how life was for slaves back then. We read how slaves lived and were "disciplined". We read about how although the white hero adored the beautiful,black heroine, there were others (his family) who weren't so welcoming. We read how the heroine is treated like the third-class citizen that blacks were during that time. While all of that was the backdrop of the storyline, the author keeps the focus on the romance. Overall, it was an enjoyable read that will certainly invokes feelings of love, hatred, anger, comedy, and ultimately triumph. That's what good fiction is supposed to do.