I wish it was possible to give less than one star, or even negative stars. This book was just that bad. For one thing, the title? I mean, seriously? It gives away what happens in the book. I am not even going to mark this post for spoilers because the title already does that for you. I have never...
We’ve probably each read several dozen books addressing slavery in America at the time of the War Between the States. There are just gobs of them – many skewed in perspective, some accurate – but they’re very common. I started Jump Ship to Freedom thinking it would be the same formula – abused sl...
An odd book. James Lincoln Collier is particularly gifted at first-person narratives of teenagers that feel very real. But this book feels a bit flat. Fergy has been traveling the country with his parents and sister; his father is a thoroughly unlikeable grifter and egomaniac. His mother inexplic...