Embers on the Wind was an Amazon Prime free Kindle First Read. I was close to quitting reading beyond the first chapter which made no sense. Glad I stuck it out. The novel got better or more interesting as I progressed.
This was more of a hard read than a good read. The story shifts between time lines and characters, and ghosts. I am still not sure who Louis was, what happened to him or his relevance to the story. Too much jumping back and forth to easily follow the storyline.
One chapter seemed to be a verbatim repeat of an earlier chapter told from the perspective of a different character. Or maybe it was told be same character at a different time? Switching back and forth between 1800s and 2000s would be okay. What was confusing was shifting between 1850, 2019, 1839, 2018, 2015, 1989. (I made that up, but that is the gist of it.)
Author, Lisa Williamson Rosenberg, covers subjects including the Underground Railroad, interracial marriages, biracial children, ghosts and senaces. Imaginative, if confusing story.
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Above is my Goodreads review of Embers on the Wind. When I write a Goodreads review I do not tell much about the story as the blurb does that. Plus some reviewers go into detail. Too much! And no Spoiler Alert!
Ladies in the present time want to stay at an Inn that was once a part of the Underground Railroad, as mentioned in previous post. The story was confusing, due to being unable to remember if I was reading about the original events happening to the Freedom Seekers, or a character relaying the story to another in recent time; or yet again, the very present time when ladies visit the Inn.
Is the Sentence happening in, say, 2019, or did it happen earlier, then talked about later. Ha, hope that sentence is not confusing. It was quite an interesting story, if only it was not so hard to follow.
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