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Review by Mirrow Wise -- The Prodigy Slave, Book One: Jo...
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Prodigy Slave, Book One: Journey to Winter Garden" by Londyn Skye.]
Lily is a young girl who is fated to a life of slavery because of the color of her skin. It doesn’t matter that her father is white. The law stipulates that every child born to a slave black woman shall be a slave. After being separated from her mother at the age of nine to be sold to another in the slave market, she finds favor in the eyes of her master’s son. They become friends, but the harsh reality of their stations in life throws them far apart. She has grown into a young woman with a gift of perfect pitch. This means that she can play any rendition of the piano after just hearing it once (even if she is hearing it for the first time). For someone who has known suffering all her life, this gift finally gives her a chance to dream. She dreams that she will play in the great theater halls far and wide and nobody will judge her by the color of her skin, but by her prowess at the piano. But how much of that dream will be a reality in light of the harsh reality of her life? Especially since her master would rather die than grant freedom to one of his slaves.
I have never read a book like The Prodigy Slave Book One: Journey To Winter Garden before. The way the book is written and the story it tells shows that Londyn Skye carefully researched the kind of lives that ancestors of today’s African-American people lived in America. Excerpts from the Slave Code are testament to that fact. No matter how much I have read about slavery in America, I have never been able to get over the ridiculousness of it. Instead of focusing solely on the bitter experiences, Londyn Skye gave her character reasons to smile. She gave her main character hope, a virtue that many slaves did not have in her time. She gave her a reason to look forward to the rising of the dawn every day, even when still in servitude to a vile human being in a vile country. I know that this is fiction, but I still feel the need to thank the author for all of these things, for by giving Lily hope, she gave me peace.
Another thing to like about the book is the perfect editing. Now I have read so many books in my life, but rarely have I seen a book that did not have a single error in it. Whether it is a missing or misplaced comma, misspelled words, omitted words, wrong grammar, or wrongly used punctuation marks. This book can boast of achieving that feat and I am impressed by this fact.
Another thing I am impressed by is the fact that I did not see anything to dislike about the book. I did not notice any negative features. The tone, narration, character development, theme, etc. were on point as far as I am concerned. This book is the epitome of perfection in its genre and as I said earlier, I’m impressed. Because I am this impressed, I have decided to give it a perfect rating of 4 out of 4 stars. I am eagerly waiting to get my hands on its sequel.
Because of the very graphic sex scene and the use of the ‘N-word’ I recommend this book to lovers of romance and history above 13 years of age. I would have liked for every reader of all ages to read this book and be exposed to the bitter truth that many have forgotten, but sadly, I would not want the mind of our young readers to be exposed to graphic erotic content and profanities before they reach the age where they can consciously differentiate good from the bad.
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The Prodigy Slave, Book One: Journey to Winter Garden
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Lily is a young girl who is fated to a life of slavery because of the color of her skin. It doesn’t matter that her father is white. The law stipulates that every child born to a slave black woman shall be a slave. After being separated from her mother at the age of nine to be sold to another in the slave market, she finds favor in the eyes of her master’s son. They become friends, but the harsh reality of their stations in life throws them far apart. She has grown into a young woman with a gift of perfect pitch. This means that she can play any rendition of the piano after just hearing it once (even if she is hearing it for the first time). For someone who has known suffering all her life, this gift finally gives her a chance to dream. She dreams that she will play in the great theater halls far and wide and nobody will judge her by the color of her skin, but by her prowess at the piano. But how much of that dream will be a reality in light of the harsh reality of her life? Especially since her master would rather die than grant freedom to one of his slaves.
I have never read a book like The Prodigy Slave Book One: Journey To Winter Garden before. The way the book is written and the story it tells shows that Londyn Skye carefully researched the kind of lives that ancestors of today’s African-American people lived in America. Excerpts from the Slave Code are testament to that fact. No matter how much I have read about slavery in America, I have never been able to get over the ridiculousness of it. Instead of focusing solely on the bitter experiences, Londyn Skye gave her character reasons to smile. She gave her main character hope, a virtue that many slaves did not have in her time. She gave her a reason to look forward to the rising of the dawn every day, even when still in servitude to a vile human being in a vile country. I know that this is fiction, but I still feel the need to thank the author for all of these things, for by giving Lily hope, she gave me peace.
Another thing to like about the book is the perfect editing. Now I have read so many books in my life, but rarely have I seen a book that did not have a single error in it. Whether it is a missing or misplaced comma, misspelled words, omitted words, wrong grammar, or wrongly used punctuation marks. This book can boast of achieving that feat and I am impressed by this fact.
Another thing I am impressed by is the fact that I did not see anything to dislike about the book. I did not notice any negative features. The tone, narration, character development, theme, etc. were on point as far as I am concerned. This book is the epitome of perfection in its genre and as I said earlier, I’m impressed. Because I am this impressed, I have decided to give it a perfect rating of 4 out of 4 stars. I am eagerly waiting to get my hands on its sequel.
Because of the very graphic sex scene and the use of the ‘N-word’ I recommend this book to lovers of romance and history above 13 years of age. I would have liked for every reader of all ages to read this book and be exposed to the bitter truth that many have forgotten, but sadly, I would not want the mind of our young readers to be exposed to graphic erotic content and profanities before they reach the age where they can consciously differentiate good from the bad.
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The Prodigy Slave, Book One: Journey to Winter Garden
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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