by Natalie Baszile
Before I start my review of Queen Sugar I must say that I had to separate the book from the television series. In order to do so, I cataloged the differences, put the book down for a couple of days and then resumed reading. There are plenty of places online to compare the two, so I will not do so at...
Before I start my review of Queen Sugar I must say that I had to separate the book from the television series. In order to do so, I cataloged the differences, put the book down for a couple of days and then resumed reading. There are plenty of places online to compare the two, so I will not do so at...
I picked this up for kindle a while back because OWN (I believe) has a series based on it. This summer I started watching the series via Hulu. I now, offically, have too many series on Hulu and AcornTV that I am addicted to watching. The book is different than the series in some major ways - two...
I'm a bit meh about this book. The basic plot is simple enough; California-girl Charley's father dies, leaving her with a derelict sugar plantation on the other side of the country. Charley heads out there with her eleven year old daughter to try and make a go of things. Of course, when she gets the...
This story had me feeling so many emotions, I had to take a break. While I was expecting the t.v. show base it was far greater than any episode of the show. While this isn't an in-depth look into the life of a cane farmer, it is definitely a story of lemons into lemonade. If you like the show it may...
This is very descriptive of the ins and outs of sugar cane farming. It's pretty full of struggles from beginning to end. I liked it, but I don't recommend it for anyone looking for a pick-me-up read.
ABR's full Queen Sugar audiobook review and many others can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.
Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile is the story of Charley Bordelon a widow with a daughter at the start of her teenage years. Charley’s father has died of cancer and for some reason he has leveraged everything he has into buying an 800 acre sugar cane plantation in Louisiana. When her father passed Cha...
Charley's father passes away and instead of leaving her money or properties in California, like she was anticipating, he leaves her a sugar cane farm in Louisiana, where he worked as a boy. I can only imagine Charley's reaction to be something like this: #dafuq A modern black woman who has sp...
This novel didn't really work for me as a whole. The description of sugar cane and sugar cane farming are great -- this woman clearly did her research, and I enjoyed that.But the setup is odd and the characters are hard to believe. There is something seriously, dangerously wrong with the daughter ...
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