Status Updates From This Cursed House

Guessing that Lawrence and Fosette sneaking off at night may be their attempts to continue the lineage? On top of the cruelty towards Agnes. How far their colorism will go…

Also I hate all of them taking advantage of her lack of family or any support system, so quick to do it too. Y’all aren’t cursed for no reason I presume.

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Reading in preparation for the She Wore Black August Book Club.

Okay I liked that it ended with her claiming her true name, that was really powerful. I wish that the little girl was Magdalene’s kid though that would’ve been cute. I also think it was a VERY realistic ending as well. Of course they wouldn’t budge from being ornery. It was very historically accurate I feel like. Good book I enjoyed it.

Forgiveness and how it was pitched ain’t enough for me. The kumbayah shit reallyyyyy fucking irked the hell out of me. I think it was an important moment, I just didn’t like how it was presented

I just feel like Jemma Isn’t eating down her “gotcha bitch clock it” the way she could’ve been. Like her monologues are too long. We don’t need a recap we were there damn😩 and they don’t need to know every little detail.

Yeah so that one person who was like “I don’t believe in forgiveness enough to finish the second half of this book” I’m right there with them. My spiteful ass is thinking of all the ways me Honrine and Simone would’ve been at it.

I think this book shifts around light skin and darker skinned perspectives in a realistic way. I think it also positions the reader to think like the lighter folk at times because we don’t hear the narratives of the slaves and Inèz like that. “Cut out tongues” n all. Ik the rest of the book will be about closure for the enslaved n what not. It really has been making me think about how I feel—color wise.

Dennis is the daddy ik it!!!