Rosie’s Reviews > A Sitting in St. James: An Epic YA Historical Novel of Slavery, Secrets, and Brutal Truths in Antebellum Louisiana > Status Update

Kinda dragging my heels through this one. It’s a good depiction of life on a plantation and the hardships of slavery and I have lots of respect for its historical accuracy. Thing is, it turns into weird rape erotica every once in a while and I don’t know why. In order to depict a plantation accurately you have to show rape, but it’s written so strangely, almost romanticized? Maybe it gets better, idk.