I have to start by saying I was torn as to whether or not I wanted to read this book. Roseanna White is one of my favorite authors and I usually buy her books without hesitation. However, when I saw this book was set in the Old SWouth I hesitated. The Old South is just about my least favorite setting, but Roseanna White!! What a dilemma. So I decided to give her a chance, could she make me like a book set in the Old South? I admit I struggled with the first five chapters, then I started to get into the plot. The characters came to life and I was hooked. I must admit that I came to really enjoy this book.
So grab a pitcher of tea and settle in on the porch swing and read Dreams Of Savannah.
I was given a copy of this book by NetGalley.com with no expectations. All thoughts are my own.
From Amazon:
Cordelia Owens can weave a hopeful dream around anything and is well used to winning the hearts of everyone in Savannah with her whimsy. Even when she receives word that her sweetheart has been lost during a raid on a Yankee vessel, she clings to hope and comes up with many a romantic tale of his eventual homecoming to reassure his mother and sister.
But Phineas Dunn finds nothing redemptive in the first horrors of war. Struggling for months to make it home alive, he returns to Savannah injured and cynical, and all too sure that he is not the hero Cordelia seems determined to make him. Matters of black and white don't seem so simple anymore to Phin, and despite her best efforts, Delia's smiles can't erase all the complications in his life. And when Fort Pulaski falls and the future wavers, they both must decide where the dreams of a new America will take them, and if they will go together.
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