Dreams of Savannah

It's impossible to rate and and review a book in a vacuum, apart from things like previous knowledge of the author and her works, apart from personal experience and other books read. It's impossible not to compare and contrast or to feel culminating weight, and I'm feeling this tension especially st......more

When Cordelia Owens’ sweetheart Phineas enlists to fight against the Yankees, she tries to keep up hope by writing heroic stories. Phineas gets wounded in a raid on his vessel and struggles for months to make it home to Delia. They both have to get real on the issue of keeping slaves as well as deal......more

White's works are like the finest tapestry's, the words are woven together so seamlessly. It takes a talented author that can write about more than one time period so effortlessly. I will admit I was drawn to the cover of this because yes, I do judge a book by it's cover. The book covers just get bett......more

3.5 stars Dreams of Savannah is a well written novel set in the Civil War time period. While I found myself loving the Southern setting and most of the characters, I never felt attachment to our main character, Cordelia and felt the book itself was a bit too long. I enjoyed some things and was not en......more

I liked: - the faith was really prominent Bored/Didn't like: - the characters especially Cordelia - the writing...just too much description and not interesting to me......more