A review by mleetm
Blood of the Earth by Faith Hunter
5.0
So satisfying
I loved every minute of this. There were twists and turns that I got once didn’t expect in a book. There was a wholesome feeling to the story, making me feel like this would be a great book to read as a preteen/teen. And I felt like the author managed to write so well about the characters and plot that what would have probably turned me off in other books (many references to an area I lived in for a while and my dad’s family still resides in) managed to still feel new. Seriously, she wrote about people who speak with heavy southern accents and unschooled grammar without making those same people sound ignorant at all. I usually am disgusted by attempts to capture that, and was surprisingly and happily shown the RIGHT way to do so.
I loved every minute of this. There were twists and turns that I got once didn’t expect in a book. There was a wholesome feeling to the story, making me feel like this would be a great book to read as a preteen/teen. And I felt like the author managed to write so well about the characters and plot that what would have probably turned me off in other books (many references to an area I lived in for a while and my dad’s family still resides in) managed to still feel new. Seriously, she wrote about people who speak with heavy southern accents and unschooled grammar without making those same people sound ignorant at all. I usually am disgusted by attempts to capture that, and was surprisingly and happily shown the RIGHT way to do so.