The
Kitchen House
By: Kathleen Grissom
Genre: adult fiction
Pages: 369
Published: 2010
Read: April
2.5 out of 5
I loved The Help by Kathryn Stockett. I was very
excited to read a book that was said to be similar and as great. WHAT a
disappointment! This book had SO much drama and stereotypes it was pathetic. Grissom
had the materials to write a great novel, but I only realized this after
reading the author's note. With that much drama she should have limited the
characters so the reader would actually be able to keep straight who slept with
whom. I know it's a fact that slave
owners took advantage of the slave women, but Ben was a disgrace to all men
alive and Belle needed to grow up and get a backbone. The only reason I gave it
2.5 stars is for the character Lavinia - she was a strong woman and the only
one who stood up for her beliefs.
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