War changes everything. Josephine and her family experience
that first hand when they return home to Virginia after the Civil War. Nothing
is the way it was. The servants that filled their plantation are now free. Her
dad and brother have been killed, and another brother returns home completely
changed. How are they going to put together the pieces of their broken lives?
This book had a very hard time keeping my attention. I felt
like it started slowly, and I couldn’t relate to the characters. However, I did
like that this story wasn’t from the perspective of just one character. I was
able to understand each main character. Usually I enjoy historical fiction, but
this is not a book I will revisit in the future. There was a lot of description
throughout this book, and I felt like that got in the way of some of the
storyline. It did not live up to my expectations. There was a good message to
this story, though: learning to make the most of the way things are and to trust
God through uncertainties.
