I shipped them immediately, and spent the rest of the book gnawing at my fingernails the way hardcore Game of Thrones fans do whenever they start the new season.
And Malcolm is a dashing hero who is so ahead of his time. Elle is such an amazing heroine, she's so brave and smart. There is so much action, so much danger, and the main characters are both so likable that you desperately want them to survive and find happiness.
Getting her to trust him is another thing entirely, though.ĮXTRAORDINARY UNION is a roller coaster of a read. He falls for Elle pretty much on sight, and his admiration of her only grows as he learns more about the role she's playing in the house and the secret brilliance of her mind. Malcolm is posing as a Confederate soldier, come home to bask in the glory while secretly gathering information and exchanging it with other spies. Their paths cross at the house of an odious Southern family, the Caffreys. He's Scottish, but is in a better position than most white people at this time to understand what it's like to be used and dehumanized because of the horrible things he experienced during the Jacobite Rebellion. EXTRAORDINARY features a strong, female protagonist in the form of Elle Burns, a young African American woman with an eidetic memory who is a spy for the North.
As much as I appreciated reading a fictional account of history from a perspective we need more of, I ended up being disappointed, although I did say that if the author wrote a full length novel, I would be back.Īnd I am glad to be back, because AN EXTRAORDINARY UNION was everything I had been hoping to get out of BE NOT AFRAID. Unlike EXTRAORDINARY, BE NOT is short & wasn't able to utilize its length well. Like AN EXTRAORDINARY UNION, BE NOT AFRAID is a Civil War-era historical romance told from an African American perspective. The first book I ever read by Alyssa Cole was BE NOT AFRAID.
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