johnsj01's reviews
520 reviews

 Quickly becoming one of my favorite authors.
Watched an interview he gave on this, and he stated something along the lines of making the KKK cartoonish and stupid because he wanted to be historically accurate. 

 Entertaining listen, I liked it and looking forward to the next book. 

 Beautiful writing and vivid descriptions. Sad story about how life was for women. I struggled knowing the ending right at the beginning of the book. Made it less suspenseful and I don’t think I enjoyed it as much because of that. 

 There is a strong story in the relationship of the women of this family. I didn’t give it more stars because it I kept forgetting who was who and what had happened to who. It made it difficult to become attached to any one character.
The ending was beautiful though, the image of all her sisters and nieces supporting her at the podium.
“But for the first time, she admitted to herself that she was scared to leave the cacophony of her family’s laughter and bickering and the sunlight and moonshine and enveloping darkness of closing her eyes, and the bright green of the first new leaves in the spring, and the pure white of a first snow before her shoe left its imprint, and the big wonder and warmth of love love love love and yet, we must.”