Helpful Score: 4
Some authors feel like an old comfortable shoe when you begin to read their work. So it is for this author for me. I totally enjoyed Honor Bright. The author makes this sensitive, principled young woman come alive it a touching and poignant way. Her quiet determination is wonderfully heart warming and one cannot help but cheer when she chooses to help runaway slaves in spite of the danger to herself and her family by marriage. I liked this tale very much.
This book was very interesting. I really liked the historical aspect of it. The author did a good job telling the story. I did not like the main character, Honor. I liked that she was anti-slavery but that was the only thing I liked about her.
Set in Ohio territory in 1850, this is the story of Honor Bright, an English girl who accompanies her sister Grace, from Dorset, England, to a new life in the American territory. The girls are Quakers, and Grace is to wed a former countryman upon arrival. Unfortunately, Grace succumbs to a fever and dies before arriving at the destination. Honor continues on, only to find herself adrift in a new world, at the home of what would have been her brother in law. She finds life very difficult, and must find a husband if she wishes to remain there. Honor finds comfort in her quilting skills, and her empathy towards all human beings, including runaway slaves, despite the color of their skin. Unfortunately, the Runaway Slave Acts makes it a crime to aid any runaway slaves at that time. Honor must find a way to reconcile her beliefs, which make her go against her new family's wishes.
Honor Bright is a young Quaker girl from England who accompanies her sister Grace to the United States in the nineteenth century. She emigrates not as much to come to the US but rather to get away from her life in England. A tragedy forces her to take yet a different path into her new chosen world. Along the way, she gets involved with the Underground Railroad......
Read the full review on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-last-runaway.html
Read the full review on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-last-runaway.html
