Janice Daugharty

By: Janice Daugharty
Published By: Hushion House Publishing
Age Recommended: Adult
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: 4
Book Blog For: GMTA
Review:

"Just Doll" By Janice Daugharty was a well written historical fiction with a good plot along with a very strong heroine. The setting was from Georgia in the late 1800's. Doll Baxter is a seventeen year old who lives with her mother and sister and are having a hard time a just struggling to make a living. Daniel Staten who is a wealthy neighbor has proposed to Doll and she will refuse. When he offer to pay her family's mortgage and back taxes along with supporting her mother and sister...Doll gives this some thought and know she can't refuse. She come up with a list of conditions and marries...Now, I will stop here and say you must pick up "Just Doll" and get the reminder of this lovely story as Doll falls in love with Daniel only to find out ....well you can get it from the good read. This author did a good job at "demonstrating the hardships faced by southern people after the Civil War" and will touch of such issues of 'racial issues, extreme poverty, and the plight of women.' I found this a very interesting read and I would recommend this as a good read.… (mais)

Set in the south, years after the civil war, families who have managed to hang on to their land are struggling. At seventeen, Doll agrees to marry Daniel, who is wealthy and agrees to pay her families back taxes and support her mother and sixty. From the beginning theirs is an adversarial relationship, and Doll is not your usual simpering southern belle. Hard work, worry and rough living as made Doll an original and she has no intention of becoming nothing but a man's possession. I haven't read very many books, set after the Civil War so I found this book and the many struggles still fought in the South very interesting. I also really liked the character of Doll and enjoyed all the ups and downs of her relationships with Daniel. This was an interesting book that I really enjoyed reading. Wil definitely read more by this author.… (mais)