Measure of Devotion

I enjoyed an Advance Reader Copy. This book is set to release May 20th, 2025. This is a Civil War novel that captures one mother's unyielding efforts to save her son, and in doing so, is subjected not only to the many hardships of this time period (lack of basic necessities - such as they were) but i......more

5.0 *Thank you to Caitlin Hamilton Marketing for this gifted copy and a spot on the tour! Defy, telegram, sacrifice… In 1863, Susannah leaves SC and her gravely ill, 25 years older husband Jacob to tend to her critically wounded son Francis. Follow her journey across several state lines with little mor......more

Do you know how you read a book and you can’t help but think “why does this character keep trying?” This is that book. The simple answer here being that Susannah is a mother. And apparently, this mother will keep facing death and horror over and over for her pitifully ungrateful son. I had to refrai......more

Finished it in about a day. Very sad but very good writing......more

The novel is structured with a plot alternating between the past and present, and this is very effective because we witness how Susannah and her husband Jacob are at crossed-purposes with each other. Their son Francis rejects his mother's devotion (from the time he was about five years old) and inst......more