Author: Jennifer Donnelly
Reading level: Young Adult
Publisher: Graphia
Rated 9/10
Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown asks her to burn a bundle of secret letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers the letters reveal the grim truth behind a murder.
MY REVIEW
I really liked this book, this book is more than just about the murder of Grace Brown(true murder that actually happened), it's about Mattie and her need to be free and write. I feel bad for what women had to go through during 1906, I'm happy I live in a time where women are free to do what men do and be who they want to be. This books shows us what it was also like for African American people during this time and how they really weren't free just because they weren't slaves anymore. I love books and their characters but just like this books says our lives aren't really like the lives of our favorite book characters and words do have the power to change people and our lives.
Mattie is the oldest daughter and is helping to take care of her family after her mother dies and her older brother runs away. She dreams of writing and attending college and the day she can be free of the burdens life has given her. Soon she is sweet on her neighbor, Royal but feels he really doesn't love her and hates when he brings her down for loving books and words. She wants to work and gets the chance when her father needs help so she gets a job at Glenmore, the local hotel. One day she gets a strange request from Grace Brown, a guest at the hotel to burn some letters. Mattie finds this strange but doesn't question it until Grace's body is found the next day. Mattie reads the letters and finds out the secret Grace Brown had been keeping and that her death wasn't an accident like others seem to think.
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