The Secrets of Heavenly by Teresa Robison

I read this book in a couple of sittings in a couple of hours, so on a can’t-put-it-down-scale of one for I couldn’t even finish it to ten for I was up until the wee morning hours, I give it a nine. Her passion for and interest in history shines through in that Vali took a real place with real time-appropriate conditions and set a fictional story into that setting flawlessly. Vali’s research on the state of Tombstone at that time period is well done I feel like I could go there and retrace the story. Since I’m an adult, it really doesn’t matter, though. The heroine is the correct age however, it read to me more like a middle-grade novel with the subject matter regarding prostitution seeming inappropriate for that age group. The book is characterized as Young Adult, but I’m not sure it fits that genre.

However, there was some “head-hopping” though I didn’t interpret the point-of-view as intending to be omniscient. She meets several dangerous challenges along the way.īlood and Silver is a well-written and easy-to-read, enjoyable story, which seemed to be essentially told from Carissa’s point of view. She makes many friends, several unlikely for anyone else without Carissa’s wit and charm, who help her try to get her mother off Laudeman and away from her abusive and dangerous situation. Carissa arrives in the silver boom-town with her mother, her mother’s boss, and her mother’s coworkers, and conflict immediately ensues when a murder occurs in her new home. As it threads through the lives of its diverse characters, this novel captures the complicated and often violent nature of life in the antebellum South.Set in 1880 in Tombstone Arizona, Blood and Silvertells a story of something that could have happened during the area’s silver rush.

Never is that fact made clearer than when Foster cruelly taunts and threatens her in secret. Right away, two of the Master's children-Marianne and Seth-forge a bond with Willa, in spite of their older brother Foster's warnings about the evils of mixing with the 'darkies.' Although she grows up in the 'big house' treated like family by her pair of white friends, Willa cannot forget that she is still a slave.

A young slave girl named Willa suddenly arrives at Heavenly Plantation with her mother Heddie, destined to serve the wealthy plantation family as house servants. 'Before Lincoln and the American Civil War, slavery is at its peak in South Carolina.

The Secrets of Heavenly by Teresa Robison