Review: A Novella that Read Like a Novel
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2013
I have often read Carrie's blogs and have really enjoyed her book reviews.  So I was very interested to learn that she had written a novella.  This story takes place during the Civil War and we start out right in the middle of the action.  Mathew our hero, who is from Ohio and runs a theater group, has been knocked out and conscripted into the Confederate army.  Angelina our heroine is a freed woman (only 1/8 black) staying on Shirley Plantation to take care of and eventually have freedom for her niece and nephew.  Different regiments of both armies bring their wounded and camp out at the plantation.  We also get to know the side characters a bit as well, who from the notes are not all fictitious characters.  We meet evil men and good men on all sides of the war.  Plus, there are secrets revealed through one family tree.  There is also the romance that is threaded through the story.  It was sad to read about the prejudices people had against each other for even one drop of blood of another race.  Not quite fitting in with one race or the other.  But, like one character realized, they are a child of God and that is all that matters.  I look forward to reading more of Carrie's work.  She packed a punch in this one, I can only imagine what she could do in a full length novel.  I received this from bookfun.org for my honest opinion.