Review: "Union's Daughter" by Sabra Waldfogel

This is the second in the Low Country Series. This engrossing novel continues the saga that began in Charleston’s Daughter. Caro has found her way to Ohio and is attending Oberlin College. Eliza, with a price on her head for assisting Caro to get north, follows her conscience and heads south to teach runaways. Both face hardships in the lives that they chose. Although she now resides in a northern City, Caro is still in danger from slave catchers and other disgruntled whites because she is a woman of color. Eliza finds life difficult also, she is mistrusted by the people of the Union for her southern accent and despised by the people of the south for the disgrace she has brought on her family for helping Caro.

The writing style that Ms. Waldfogel utilizes keeps the story interesting and moving. Each chapter or group of chapters tell the story from either Caro’s or Eliza’s prospective. This creates a roller coaster affect as you come to the end of each section, you are left hanging as she plunges into the next. You don’t want to put the book down.

I highly recommend this book. It continues the unique prospective that the author had explored in the first novel. This is a little known and written about segment of the Civil War that deserves to come to light. The emotional drama and heartache that this brings to the surface will keep you turning pages and with a desire to read more.