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The Woodsman's Daughter
Written by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Narrated by Linda Stephens
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Award-winning author Gwyn Hyman Rubio conquered best-seller lists across the country with her brilliant debut novel, Icy Sparks -- an Oprah's Book Club selection and New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The Woodsman's Daughter is set in 19th-century rural Georgia. Dauntless teenaged beauty Dahlia is plagued by her hard-drinking father and his terrible secrets. Determined to make a better life for herself, Dahlia strikes out to raise her own family. But her life is haunted by tragedy, and she is never out of reach of fate's cruel hand.
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Reviews for The Woodsman's Daughter
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This novel is set in the South after reconstruction. It is a about a girl whose father came from a poor family in the South, but has built up a turpentine farm. Her sister is blind and her mother has an laudanum addiction. After her father dies, the family is left poor, and she goes to a new town to start her own life. I enjoyed the story, but some of the sentences are clunky and are hard to read. Sometimes this got in the way of my enjoyment.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Monroe Miller is a prosperous turpentine farmer in southern Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. He is respected by everyone but his wife and two daughters, Dalia, and Nellie Ann, and the beloved black servant Katie Mae. Why is one of the big plot points, and I won't spoil the read an tell what it is, but it's a big one. The first half of the book is Monroe's story, and then the second half of the book shifts to Dalia. Lots of interesting time-period detail. The only complaint I have is that there wasn't always a clear explanation for the characters' motivation for doing what they did. Still a good read.