Review: "Young Adult" Type Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 19, 2013
I got this book because I grew up in Beaufort County about 20 miles from the story's setting. I knew the book sounded a little "pre-teen"; but that was okay because it was based on a true abduction story. I was not disappointed in the book. It is a good eyewitness account of a side of the story of the encounters between the native Americans and the Europeans.  Abuse and cruelty was perpetrated by both. The Europeans treated the aboriginals deplorably and the natives reciprocated by using kidnapped European slave women as beaten beasts of burden and starving and freezing little kidnapped children.. Plenty of blame to go around. The sexual abuse of kidnapped women was not addressed in this book as it is in other first person narratives probably due to the market target of the book's reader.  It was the 800 pound gorilla in the room though. Adults can enjoy this account and it is not too graphic for even the youngest reader who enjoys history and a good story.