Thank you to OTRPR and Amazon Publishing for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.Author Trisha R. Pick up a copy from your favourite retailer or from one of the following links. Overall, What Passes as Love is an immersive, tender, engaging story by Thomas that doesn’t pack quite the emotional punch of some of the other Antebellum-era novels I’ve read recently but is still nevertheless an absorbing, satisfying tale. The characters are determined, impulsive, and lonely. And the plot told from dual POVs unravels quickly into an intriguing tale of life, loss, love, friendship, injustice, jealousy, guilt, self-identity, loneliness, family drama, and survival. What Passes as Love is a vivid, captivating tale that sweeps you away to Virginia during the 1850s and into the life of Dahlia Holt, a young woman of mixed race who struggles to find her true place in a world where her skin is too light to be comfortable amongst her fellow slaves and a little too dark to be confident in her own home with a husband who mistakenly believes she is white. With suspicions of her true identity growing and a bounty hunter not far behind, Dahlia must act fast or pay a devastating price. But when Bo arrives on the estate in shackles, Dahlia decides to risk everything to save his life.
She also knows she’ll never have this chance at freedom again.Įnsconced in the Ross mansion, Dahlia soon finds herself held captive in a different way-as the dutiful wife of a young man who has set his sights on a political future. Reinventing herself as Lily Dove, Dahlia allows Timothy to believe she’s white, with no family to speak of, and agrees to marry him.
Ten years later, Dahlia meets Timothy Ross, an Englishman in need of a wife. Forced to leave behind her best friend, Bo, she lives in a world between black and white, belonging to neither. When Dahlia’s father, the owner of Vesterville plantation, takes her to work in his home as a servant, she’s desperately lonely. I was six years old the day Lewis Holt came to take me away.īorn into slavery, Dahlia never knew her mother-or what happened to her. A young woman pays a devastating price for freedom in this heartrending and breathtaking novel of the nineteenth-century South.ġ850.
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