Journal Entry 1 by CrazyDutchwoman from Heemstede, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Wednesday, January 25, 2012

When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family.

Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin.

Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. Lavinia finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk.  

Journal Entry 2 by CrazyDutchwoman at Heemstede, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Read from December 25 to 28, 2011
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review I had sorted this book as literature on my shelf well it is definitely not literature but more cheap sensational stuff based on stereotypes.
While reading this book this is what I wrote:
"I am not liking this book. It feels like the books i read when I was a teen. It is too much. Too much sorrow and everything goes wrong. Now she is going to make life changing decisions because of lack of communication. If there is something I dislike it is that in books.

I had sorted this book as literature on my shelf well it is definitely not literature but more cheap sensational stuff based on stereotypes.
While reading this book this is what I wrote:
"I am not liking this book. It feels like the books i read when I was a teen. It is too much. Too much sorrow and everything goes wrong. Now she is going to make life changing decisions because of lack of communication. If there is something I dislike it is that in books.


I meant ...moreI had sorted this book as literature on my shelf well it is definitely not literature but more cheap sensational stuff based on stereotypes.
While reading this book this is what I wrote:
"I am not liking this book. It feels like the books i read when I was a teen. It is too much. Too much sorrow and everything goes wrong. Now she is going to make life changing decisions because of lack of communication. If there is something I dislike it is that in books.


I meant by that that you know a woman could have had a great live if not for a stupid misunderstanding. Like in the cheap harlequin?romance books where they never understand each other and because of tht make dumb decisions.

After a while (65%) I decided to quit reading which is something I hardly ever do. I knew what was going to happen and i could not care less. So disappointing. I've been wanting to read this book for a while now.