The Land

What a great read...I don't usually read historical books set around or immediately after slavery, due to the ties to my heritage and ancestors, but it was a satisfying, albeit bittersweet read.

Review to come.

Highly recommended. Can not express how much I love this author and this series. I was around 12 when I first read Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry and fell in love with it. Now 14 years later I read The Land and fell in love all over again.

This book is extremely good, I never put it down for a second. It is the prequel to one of my favorite books ever, Roll of thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. The story focuses on Paul-Edward Logan, a mulatto slave born who now lives as a free colored person on his father's land with his mother,sister and three white brothers. His father and mother knew the consequences that follwed them when his father decided to raise Paul and Cassie as if they were fully white. They laerned to read,write, and do many things that colored people could not dream of back in the 1800's. After an awakening of reality from a betrayal from his closest brother Robert, he escapes with his best friend Mitchell and encounter a world that didn't accept Paul's “kind”; because it was either you were too white to be considereed colored, or your too black to be white. He had to live a life of mainly isolation and not trusting anyone but mitchell. Not wanting to give everything away, If anyone has read any of the Logan series, this is a perfect book to read to be able to learn about their families history and how they came to be. And if you never read it before, than its even beter, to be able to start with Paul's story and continue 3 generations later with the same pride and struggles that the Logans face in the South.