book six

I flew through book number six! Not because it was fabulous or anything. Simply because I was driven to get it finished before my trip back to the South. It was however mind tossing. I knew the ending from the very beginning, but I read with a force hoping that I was going to be proven wrong. Unfortunately I wasn't.

For a book so predictable in my eyes, Tracy Price-Thompson kept me interested with her quite bold culture that jumps out and punches you in the forehead. Gather Together In My Name is a story of turmoil that turns into a disaster. Having a mother who was psycho from their birth, three little black boys had a minuscule chance to survive in a world full of crime and racism.

The part that took my breath away was close to the ending where the tragedy happens, and Thompson makes you fall in love with a criminal. Her talent to make you fall in love with the unlovable is impeccable and unmissable in this novel. It just goes to show that this world has very little to offer, and love is the most important thing to keep a family together.