Yellow Wife Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Sadeqa Johnson
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
821

Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson Book Summary

From the New York Times bestselling author of House of Eve—a 2023 Reese’s Book Club Pick!

*A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Christian Science Monitor*

Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia.

Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world.

She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer’s cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.

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Book Name Yellow Wife
Genre Historical Fiction
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 7.42 MB

Yellow Wife (Sadeqa Johnson) Book Reviews 2024

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Great Easy Read. I thought this was a great book. I loved how it flowed. It was a great easy read that kept my attention.

America’s Shame. In a way my eyes were opened to the horrors of what happened to slaves in American history. And it makes me wonder how anyone can be prejudice against black people today. We need to learn from this. Yet even now, American people need to learn respect and love for each and everyone no matter their skin color. We are all human beings.

Page Turner!. Wow! I love reading historical fiction and have read so many novels about this time period, but I could not put this book down! From the first chapter I was totally captivated to Pheby’s story. Highly recommend.

Incredible. Truly heartbreaking

I love my people!. Wow….just wow….read this book.

amazing read. heartbreaking honestly, ending had me in tears very well written

What a read!. This book was sooooo heartbreaking. I cried and mourned over the senseless experiences of enslaved people. The author researched the experiences very well.

Heart wrenching. I couldn’t put this book down. It is haunting and heartbreaking with a continued air of hope. Great read

I. From the moment I started reading this book I could not put it down. Every chapter left me wanting more to find out what would become of the main characters in the book. Well written in all points truly a fan of the author.

Sexual Assault (trigger warning). The mishandling of the male slave Essex being raped by the mistress in this book really killed the story. Female slave Pheby is secretly dating Essex. Essex is threatened and forced to have sex with the white mistress. He painfully confesses the string of sexual assaults to his girlfriend Pheby and she responds with rage, shaming, and blame toward him. It was a disgusting scene. Especially when the female main character Pheby should have known better: she had seen her mother being raped by the master and later her mother explained she had no choices but that everything she does is for her. Logically, that would give Pheby an understanding of how coercion and rape works on a plantation. Still, she had zero sympathy for Essex and narcissistically made herself the “betrayed” victim of the situation with zero consideration as he repeatedly explained how he was threatened. She says he’s dropped a lot on her and needs time then leaves him there. As the “heroine” of our story, it was very uninspiring and honestly unforgivable. Writing is decent but that scene was detrimental. It makes you not care for the main character at all which disconnects you from the story. Also, if you’re going to have sexual assault in your book, be careful what message you’re putting out and ask yourself: is this helpful to existing issues of today?

Must read!. AMAZING…. It was very hard to ready I took many breaks but amazing story beautifully written.

Excellent. I do not read and this just made me love reading. Outstanding Excellent

Could NOT put it down!. Absolutely riveting, but such sadness and suffering.

Yellow Wife. Love the book and enjoyed reading it.

Well Written. Well written historical fiction novel. This is the second book I’ve read from this author and she is very talented.

Yes!. Great great great read. I tried to control my emotions.

God be with us all. The book was disheartening and enlightening at the same time. It gave me a reassured appreciation for life as I live today as an African American woman. God bless us all and may our ancestors continue to guide us through with your strength.

Yellow wife. I Loved this wonderfully told story,of the life of hardship,that blossomed into a great new future. Best read I’ve had in a while.

Wow. Heartbreaking but necessary!! L

Great read. Compelling story finished in one day.

Excellent Read. A rollercoaster ride of emotions, anxiousness, anger, disgust, and hope of freedom at any cost.

Excellent Read. I could not put this book down a real page turning. I definitely recommend A MUST READ!

Amazing story….. This was an amazing story that sheds a lot of truth and light on the subject on slavery and the ongoing stories of the cruelty that existed before the civil war. But for me, I was drawn into the legacy of this story because of the undying love of a mother for her children and her constant fight for a better life for them in spite of her circumstances. We all have challenges in life, regardless of our race, our heritage and our social status and it never ceases to amaze me the undying love of our maternal instincts… for this I am grateful. Hats off to the Author for a job well done and for a story beautifully written.

Great. Great book, excellent writer.

Powerful! Gripping & Touching Story!. Wow! I could not put this book down! Empowering and uplifting to hear the struggles and treatments and still she rose!

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Summary of Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson

The Yellow Wife book written by Sadeqa Johnson was published on 12 January 2021, Tuesday in the Historical Fiction category. A total of 821 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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