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The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove by Susan Gregg Gilmore
3.0
THE IMPROPER LIFE OF BEZELLIA GROVE by Susan Gregg Gilmore
A charming coming of age story set in the 1960s. Bezellia Grove grows up within an affluent family in Nashville Tennessee. While her physician father is busy at work and her emotionally abusive, alcoholic mother cares more about her social life, Bezellia and her sister Adelaide have come to rely on their nanny Maizelle and handyman Nathaniel for familial love and support.
Once Bezellia develops feelings for Nathaniel’s son Samuel, she begins to see the glaring differences between class, status and skin color within the uppity society and community in they live in.
This is one of those stories that has been repeated time and time again; forbidden love, a clash of two cultures etc. While it’s a good story with an interesting premise and characters, there just wasn’t anything special or specific enough to make it stand out from other books in this genre.
Rating: 3/5 ⭐️
A charming coming of age story set in the 1960s. Bezellia Grove grows up within an affluent family in Nashville Tennessee. While her physician father is busy at work and her emotionally abusive, alcoholic mother cares more about her social life, Bezellia and her sister Adelaide have come to rely on their nanny Maizelle and handyman Nathaniel for familial love and support.
Once Bezellia develops feelings for Nathaniel’s son Samuel, she begins to see the glaring differences between class, status and skin color within the uppity society and community in they live in.
This is one of those stories that has been repeated time and time again; forbidden love, a clash of two cultures etc. While it’s a good story with an interesting premise and characters, there just wasn’t anything special or specific enough to make it stand out from other books in this genre.
Rating: 3/5 ⭐️