Tobit and the Hoodoo Man: A Mystical Tale from the Civil War South

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Tobit and the Hoodoo Man: A Mystical Tale from the Civil War South

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Originally published at midureads. The protag is made to look so smart in so many ways and yet her stupidity gets an old woman killed! Barely anything happens in the book and it feels like a go-between for the first and third books in the series. I mean, yeah you would expect people to be less than lovely when they kick out the weak and crippled.

Along with the size of the village, where it was located, how it formed etc. I was like, fine it has a sucky cliffhanger but we will know more. We are left stranded with a character who is already an outcast because she is handicapped physically and universally hated socially. She refuses to escape with her father who has come back from the dead to save her from the clutches of his murderer.

She is going to attempt to make her village a better place. This is a village where children with any artistic talent weaving, carving, singing are taken away from their parents who are then murdered.

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The kids will be kept in servitude. Why are they taken and why does one of them feel as if his craft is being sponged out of his mind is never answered. Along with a gazillion other questions. Okay, I need to read something else or I might kill somebody! Okay, when you look at the book blurbs and the premise on which this series is based, it comes off as one unique concept. Think of the Austen women who can do household magic.

It did to me too but the first book fell flat. I decided to give the second one a chance and reading it left me irritated! Here are some reasons why:. The protagonist annoyed me the most. When asked by a Frenchman what quality set her own countrywomen English apart, she said nothing. A father hitting his children to discipline them was the norm there.

It just felt incongruous that she was so appalled by it. Maybe, I am projecting? His wife barely knows anything about his past yet she is patient. Then he tells her he is taking her on a honeymoon to France. By the end, her husband had been captured by Napoleonic forces and she had to rescue him.

Dunno if I am right; it is just the way it felt to me. Okay, I had no idea I had been so pissed off! On the positive side, here is a funny:. The humor is done so well. The male lead has complete faith in his outrageously colored waistcoats will woo the lady.

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The heroine is capable of laughing at his silliness and hers. He also does that without emasculating himself. He supports her when she needs it. He is completely okay with letting her be who she is and jumps into bar brawls with her. Yet she is woman enough to appreciate everything Fox brings to the relationship.

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She shows amazing restraint but not because she is helpless. I like that the author did her research on the historical situation at that time. Even though the story was rooted in an alternate history, it shows that she made all efforts to make it an authentic one. Yet the info dumps were unbearably boring to get through.

Not a good thing! One of the climactic events was that when the couple would get to their destination, Fox was going to be cut off from his emotions. There was a tower in that land that deadened the feelings of people with nanobots in their blood. The whole book was set up in a way to make us dread when that happened. What would Fox do? Would he try to kill Yasmeen? Could their relationship survive that?

These were the kind of questions I had right after the tower was mentioned. The mystery was solved just few pages before the couple got there. And not in a good way. I learned the tower had long been out of function and there was never anything to be scared of. Anyway, you know that thing where you have seen an object in movies, read about it, and yet have NO idea about what its called? For a woman who claimed to not want to marry because she valued her freedom, whatsername gave it up too easily. Beatrix is a cutie! Leo behaved like an ass, which was surprising. I hope the other books are more in line with the second and third ones.

Everything seems rushed; it felt like the author wanted to cram all the quirkiness in under pages.

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Not a good experience at all. They are full of awful cliches, puns about cats, rats, bats, and birds, and the humor feels forced. However, you might think otherwise and that Ms.

Atwood has no business writing a comic. In the preface, the author described herself as an award-winning author, which kinda pissed me off. Other than that, my reaction was somewhere in the middle of the two extremes mentioned above. This was one scary comic book! I skimmed through most of the book because it failed to hold my attention for longer than 2 minutes at a time! Whether it is a power that she discovers and masters in less than 2 days or every other guy mooning after her, she IS the one. Her love interest decides to turn into an asshole in this book. He accuses her of cheating on him multiple times.

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So far, I'm enjoying the book. How did your book love begin? I guess I've been reading books since time out of mind. As a late Baby Boomer, I don't remember a time when I didn't read. WOW How much time do you spend reading daily? I read every day - on average 4 to 5 hours daily. Do you review every book you read? How does your review process look like? I try to review all the books I've read.

Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Tobit and the Hoodoo Man by E. Tobit and the Hoodoo Man: An apocryphal story set in the Civil War South In the nineteenth century as America struggles with its morality, southern educators journey to South Carolina to test Dixie's physical fitness in games of strength that pit white students against black slaves.

Lasting friendships emerge, friendships that endure the pa An apocryphal story set in the Civil War South Lasting friendships emerge, friendships that endure the pain and suffering of plantation life before, during and after the Civil War, and friendships that rise in the face of racism in an age when hatred is as common as love. An unlikely bond is forged between the young black champion Tobit and the half-breed highwayman - the self-proclaimed Hoodoo Man - who Tobit encounters as he returns to Nineveh, his master's plantation in ante-bellum Georgia.

Accused of abetting a runaway slave, Tobit is blinded and left a broken man by the sadistic overseer Wolfenbuttel. Twenty years later at the end of the war, Tobit sends his only son Tobias on a quest through the ravaged Southland to find the Hoodoo Man who may be the only one who can save Tobit and the people of Nineveh from the hate and greed of a nation in the throes of rebirth. Accompanied by a young priest, Tobias surmounts each obstacle he faces and returns to Nineveh for a final confrontation with the Circle of Brothers that will determine the fate of freed men everywhere.

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Apr 06, Sarah rated it it was amazing Shelves: The first half of this story focuses on Tobit, a male slave in the pre-Civil War South, and events that will shape the course of his life. The characters are mostly black and white—both literally and figuratively; the heroes are n The first half of this story focuses on Tobit, a male slave in the pre-Civil War South, and events that will shape the course of his life. The characters are mostly black and white—both literally and figuratively; the heroes are nearly sinless while the villains are blatantly evil, and in many ways it is a moral tale.