Book Blog #28, Somerset, week 2

Somerset                                    Southern Romantic Tragedy                                    by Leila Meacham

As Jessica Whyndham grows older, the tension between the forced marriage starts to dissipate, and she falls for Silas. (If you haven't read week 1, this won't make any sense). She has two miscarriages before delivering another boy, Thomas, as a sibling for Joshua. As war between the North and the south grows more imminent, Jessica's abolitionist views grow more fierce as tension grows between her and her slave owning family. Thomas marries a woman he does not love, but he marries her because he wants spouse before he goes to war, and Jessica wonders if the so called "curse" will break her son's family, as it almost did hers.

I personally really enjoyed this book, regardless of it being a long southern romance, and found all of the connections between the characters to be fascinating. I like how developed all of the characters are because they all have very unique personalities that interact interestingly with each other. The one problem is that all of the characters become very confusing because there are three main families, each with 2-3 children, and most of their children have 2-3 children. Anyways, I'll just say it gets confusing.

Warning!!! This book does have very mature content, and talks a fair amount about sex, death, romance, scandal, it has language, and their is slavery and sexism.

I would recommend this to... Maia? It is very odd and it doesn't seem like it suits anyone that well, but she might enjoy the very different genre.
TBR List:
Crewel                                                      Gennifer Albin
The Eye of Minds                                     James Dashner
The Adoration of Jenna Fox                     Mary Pearson
Across the Universe                                  Beth Revis
The Program                                             Suzzane Young