The Throwback: The Girl Who Wasn't Wanted (The Mosa Series Book 1)

Her father thought she was an other mans child. Actually less than a man a slave. He thought his wife had been with a slave and he wanted the child killed, NOW. Wanted his wife gone from his sight, NOW. and being a planter he made arrangement’s for those things to happen. Not his fault a slight glitch happened to his plans. One that didn’t come back to bite him till years later.

This was my first book to read by David Canford. A very good book that kept me interested and wanting to keep reading to see what happens next. This book takes place right before and during the Civil War. It is different as the plantation owners wife gives birth to a brown baby and he thinks she has been laying with a slave and has been unfaithful. His mother informs him that his great grandmother was a woman of color and that sometimes babies, such as his, shows up in future generations. So many twists, turns and mysteries happen along with deaths and secrets that it keeps the book very interesting. This also has a love story or two to keep up with. I am excited to read more of this authors books especially the sequel to The Throwback, to see what happens after the Civil War is over and how Mosea reconstructs the plantation with her new husband.

A little far fetched. No one could be as lucky as Mosa. It was, however, easy reading. A time in our history that was not good

When I started this book I was prepared to give it a 5 star review, but about mid-way I was so disappointed in what the author decided to do with a favorite character my liking went down to a 3Don't be a male character in one of this author's book -- not if you want to live -- especially if you're a good guy that the reader is likely to become very fond of because you're guaranteed to get killed off.I also highly question whether a woman, let alone a black woman, could own a plantation in South Carolina during the Civil War.

I enjoyed the historical part of one of this nation’s darkest periods. Through the story, the book an honest read, as it did not have a fairy tale ending.

It's not that I didn't enjoy the book as much as it was kind of a too easy answer kind of a book? It seemed like Mosa could just do about anything without as many of the problems enslaved people experienced at that time. Maybe because I had just read The Invention of Wings right before it, it paled a bit in comparison. I did follow the story of her life and did not lose interest but it just wasn't as true to life as some. The ending leaves you hanging for the sequel book.

The author is a good story teller and the plot is well conceived, but the text is terribly, if at all, edited. The work deserves more attention/respect than it was given.

Loved the story. But for a couple of "contrived" episodes this rating would have been a 5 star. Full character development.

Another amazing book by this author - this time dealing with slavery in America. It was very sensitively written and once again came up with unexpected twists and suspense. A real page-turner and very thought provoking - a sequel could easily follow. As with all his books, he ties up all the loose ends which is very satisfying to the reader. I really liked this book - 5 stars.

This book was so brutal that I quit within the first five chapters. It might be realistic for the time it's set in - the days of slavery in America - but I couldn't like or root for ANYone except Mosa. And even that wasn't because of anything in her own personality, but simply because she wasn't evil and therefore stuck out from the rest of the cast, and because she was victimised by basically the rest of the cast and I just wanted it to stop already.If you have a stronger stomach than mine and can take reading about pretty much irredeemable evil, and the brutality that results, then read it. But don't say you weren't warned.

I found this book to be enthralling and absorbing, and thoroughly believable. The characters were real. The author paints a vivid portrait of a slice of history, and the people who were there when it happened. There are a mixture of tragedies and triumphs. I am so glad that there is a sequel, as I was really hoping to find out what happened to the main characters in the book.