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# The Confessions of Frannie Langton: A Novel Paperback – June 23, 2020

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    COULD NOT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2020*

The Confessions of Frannie Langton“A startling, compelling historical debut novel. . . should be on top of your vacation reading pile.” -The Washington PostI am at a loss for words at how amazing this novel was.  I finished this book in two days because I could barely put it down.  I had to finish and find out all the details.This novel starts out with a murder of Frannies employer and his wife. Frannie was a former slave turned house maid turned scribe. She remains adamant that she did not murder the wife, Madame, who we come to learn is a huge part of Frannies life. This novel follows the written confessions of Frannie and describes in detail all the trials and tribulations she had to deal with in her life.  I felt terrible for the things she went through in her younger years, as well as the game Madame played with her like she was some rag doll to be played with. Frannie was an extremely brave soul throughout this whole ordeal and I understand why she did the things that she did.When I first received this book, I wasn’t aware of the love story that was embedded within , which was a nice added addition. Although I didn’t agree with the way Madame treated Frannie, I really felt the love Frannie felt for Madame.With Frannie confessing all she does, it may indicate her but also will show all the crimes committed by the others in this novel and that is what really matters.  Revenge is sweet and everyone needs to pay for their sins.  This was a very powerful novel and will definitely make you think!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Slavery scenes with a terrible plausibility.
  

*by M***D on Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2019*

Genre: Historical FictionPublisher:  Harper CollinsPub. Date:  May 21, 2019Martie's Rating: 3 1/2 StarsThis novel is good, unusual, but not unusually good, although it could have been.  There may be too much going on, which I will get to, but at its center is a gripping narrative about a female servant in England who was a former Jamaican slave.  In 1826, she is accused of the brutal double murder of her employer and his wife, George and Marguerite Benham.  The first half of the tale is written so well.  We meet Frannie in jail writing her life’s story.  She was born on a West Indian plantation whose master, John Langton, is a sadist.  (Spoiler: She is her master’s bastard daughter).  As a child, she was taught to read and write. She grows to be highly self-educated.The reason for her literacy was for her to participate in and take notes on her master’s pseudoscience experiments.  Langton is studying racial differences.  He is trying to prove that blacks are not human.  He uses skulls, blood, and skin samples from dead as well as live slaves.  The author chooses to leave out, what could be barbaric descriptions.  You will read about a baby being used as a research subject.  Rather than focusing on what is being done to the infant, Collins writes about the child’s desperate mother scratching on the outside of the locked room.  Or, that Frannie knows that the woman will be sold in the near future.  Less gore can equal more horror.  In the endnotes, the author cites “Medical Experimentation and Race in the Atlantic World.”  The author's research charges these scenes with a terrible plausibility.During the trial of the “The Mulatta Murderess,” Frannie is asked why she didn’t just leave England.  By then, slavery was illegal in Great Britain.  Her reply is heartbreaking:  No one told her that she could.  It is this style of understated writing that packs the strongest punch.  If the author would have stayed with this theme, this could have been an unusually good story, different from other historical novels on the subject of slavery.  This is shown through Frannie's narrative, “…no doubt you think this will be one of those slave histories…with misery and despair.  But who’d want to read one of those?...What no one will admit about anti-slavers is that they’ve all got a slaver’s appetite for misery…And, for all their talk of men as brothers, most of them stared at me as if I had two heads.”In the second half of the book, Frannie is a lady’s maid to a wealthy Georgian couple who live in London.  Here is where the story’s pacing becomes uneven with way too many subplots.  It is easy to become less invested in the character because the story is all over the place.  You will read about betrayal, murder, lesbian love, drug addiction, and a whorehouse devoted to spankings.  The punch is muted, but not completely gone.  It is impossible not to be swept away from a story with such concise and powerful writing.  “My intentions in writing my jailhouse musings ...it's my life, I want to assemble the pieces of it myself…For every crime, there are two stories, and that an Old Bailey trial is the story of the crime, not the story of the prisoner. That story is the one only I can tell."  The writing’s strength is reason enough to recommend the novel.I received this Advance Review Copy (ARC) novel from the publisher at no cost in exchange for an honest review.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Mixed emotions
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2020*

I didn't absolutely love it because it was a very slow read for me. I really took longer than expected to finish this book. At some points I didn't care what happened next as I was a little fed up with the repetition and delay tactics. The book could have ended 50 pages earlier. Frannie was a hard character to like and I just didn't like her. The story was interesting and I liked how she moved between her time in Jamaica and her time in London. Frannie was naive and not very street savvy thus she did not exercise good judgement. Additionally, some of Frannie's encounters didn't seem realistic for a slave/black person in London after the abolition of slavery. I would still recommend it because it was interesting at some parts and coming on to the end I got a little bit more invested in the story.

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