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Tanglewood Plantation (2000)

by Jocelyn Miller(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 3

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review 1: The author take you back in time by the current day character’s dreams (or time travel) which is far fetched but an interesting way to tie the linage of the family together. If you can get past the time travel the story shows history that may have not been considered (i.e.: the North fought to free slaves only to rape, pillage and starve people from the south during the war. Going from plantation to plantation taking what they needed to survive and having Southerners (white or black) wait on them: cook their meals, steal their food & horses then burn the buildings that the Northerners took shelter in while they were there. In a twisted way they were not much different than the reason they were fighting for in the first place.
review 2: Tanglewood Plantat... moreion is the story of a young woman from Chicago that inherits her family's Georgia plantation. Expecting to be a wealthy landowner, she hightails it down south. What she finds is in stark contrast to her expectations. The plantation is run down,to put it kindly. Grounds overgrown, the house in severe disrepair,it reeks of sadness and loss.For Summer Woodfield, this is not going to work. To make things worse,she is expected to stay put for a year before the inheritance is final! Attempting to make the best of what she considers an awful situation, she hunkers down to try and ride it out. She finds a cache of love letters in an attic trunk. Touching a fingerprint, at the bottom of one of the letters, she finds herself transported to her plantation at the start of the Civil War. And shockingly to her, she is a slave! Summer is a shallow young woman with a sense of entitlement so I found this to be a wonderful turn of events.While Summer struggles to survive, she also is given a life lesson or two. I have read a lot of very critical reviews of this book. I for one enjoyed it for what I believe it is. It is an attempt to put the reader in a difficult time and place,and to see history play out from a perspective of knowing how it will end,but still try to fix it.And I think the author tried her best to keep things accurate. There is a sequel to this, but I think I will just forgo that and remember the book kindly. less

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