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Escape To Zion (2010)

by Jean Holbrook Mathews(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

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Romance

publisher

Covenant Communications

review 1: I am not sure how I keep picking such depressing books lately. This book wasn't bad but to be honest if I had any hint of the ending I don't think I would have read it. It was a very faith promoting book and I appreciated the struggles and trials that Maria and Hank went through and I do believe a lot of it was accurate to the time period it was written. However, I also believe the faith the early pioneers had also brought them happiness and that was hard to find in this story. So...I hope to have learned something from this one, but wouldn't put it on the reread list.
review 2: Pretty good story. This is LDS fiction, and it was interesting to read a story based on accounts of those who left the South to come to Utah and join in with the main group of saints a... moret that time. This novel tells us of Maria, a young woman who comes to America as an indentured servant. After serving two other families, she eventually ends up in the household of Lafayette Breaux. He is a cruel, unfeeling man who views Maria as his property, and refuses to honor the original terms of her indentured servitude. He intends to keep her as a slave forever, if he can help it. Maria eventually flees from his household after he rapes her, and she is saved by a man named Hank, who finds her floating down the river in her attempt to escape. The two of them eventually marry, join the Mormon religion and travel to Utah, or Zion, all the while being pursued by Breaux. This book taught me things about the struggle many of indentured servants went through to obtain freedom and have a better life...it's crazy how not so long ago (and even still today, in some parts of the world), people are considered property and not full-fledged human beings. Ir was nice to see that Maria did eventually ago her freedom, but the ending of the book was unexpected and had its sad moments. It was still a very worthwhile read, though. less

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