Title: Tainted Harvest
Author: Billups
Genre: Historical fiction
Review:
She escaped servitude for a worse fate. Now she wants everyone to know what happened.
Travel writer Simone Doucet is searching for a meaningful life, but she hasn't found a purpose yet. But after she accepts an assignment that takes her to Magnolia Sunrise - a historical bed-and-breakfast on the bluffs of Natchez, Mississippi - strange events begin to take place.
Frightful images of a young slave girl, Delphine, haunt her nights. The first night at the B&B, Simone is transported to 1863, antebellum Natchez. Through spectral eyes, Simone sees Delphine’s history; the horrors she witnessed and was subjected to.
Delphine wants everyone to know what happened to her, and she won't stop haunting Simone until she tells her story. But why has Delphine chosen Simone, and will this awakening bring new purpose to her life, or open up more untold mysteries to be discovered?
This book is not for all, I must tell you. It unfolds end number of historical events. It requires a certain level of understanding, it’s a masterpiece.
I liked the way author has takeover the story from past to present and had perfectly balanced. Unique storyline, beyond the horizon.
The characterisation is different, seemed like living characters. It’s about hope, revenge, tears, slavery, pain, and a lot more.
Proses are beautiful.
“Skeletal antiquity,
Deeply seeded,
Root-to-leaf fodder,
For the Devil’s harvest,
Below the bluffs of Natchez Trace.
When Sumter thundered, plantations shuttered,
Relented barbarous tricentennial bondage,
Jubilant cries of freedom followed,
‘til Union Armies hollered, halt,
Thwarting thousand’s glory walk.
Detained, rerouted, entrapped, encamped on banks,
Flesh and bone buried where they sank.
Oh, what spoilage stains the bowl-shaped gulch,
Below the bluffs of Natchez Trace.
A forsaken, veritable unwritten history,….”
The language is simple and easy to understand. The cover is decent with an appreciable title. A perfect read !
Rating: 10/10
Review By Walk With A Book.
