Just
finished next months book club selection The Kitchen House which is
billed as a masterful historical novel by author Kathleen Grissom.
Charlotte Bronte would have loved it. I thought it beats pulp romance
but not by much. I quickly tired of the central character's unending
naivete . It seemed too construed for someone who grew up under her
circumstances. And the plot was just all too tragic and melodramatic.
The only unpredictable action was when the doped out Big House
Mistress ( Miss Martha) overcame her opiate stupors long enough to
chase off her evil plantation overseer and his thugs by threatening to shoot
them with a gun ( only to feign away as soon as they were gone).... How
very Victorian of her.
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