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Meet Me at 10
- The Shona Jackson Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Barbara Henslee
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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Summary
Would you have the courage to risk your life for what is right?
Shona, Cuban, Elbie, and Chloe. Four lives inextricably linked. Will tragic events part them forever?
It’s 1958 and Shona Jackson is on the run again, forced to flee Mississippi and the town she’d called home. Arriving in Alabama, with hopes of saving up enough money to continue her journey to safety, she convinces Jeffrey Ellis, the wealthy co-owner of a machinery plant, to give her a job. There she strikes up a bond with Cuban.
Cuban is on a similar path to Shona. Relentlessly abused because of the color of his skin, his sole ambition is to earn enough to escape to New York, but Ellis’s brutal business partner, Larry Bruce, and his racist workforce are hell-bent on making Cuban’s life unbearable.
As events unfold, Shona also finds herself in Larry Bruce’s murderous sights.
Their only hope is Elbie, the elderly tool room supervisor, who has been covertly keeping a diary to one day expose all the horrific acts carried out over the last five years by Bruce and his associates.
But when Chloe Bruce, Larry’s beautiful daughter, returns from college and is introduced to the workforce, there are devastating consequences for all those involved.
Will Elbie’s diary end up in the wrong hands?
Will Cuban achieve his dream of making it to New York?
And will Shona’s past finally catch up with her?
Meet Me at 10 is the second novel in an epic historical fiction trilogy. If you like gripping pause-resisting, heroines with a heart, and captivating tales of love crossing boundaries, you’ll love Vicky Jones and Claire Hackney’s compelling and heart-breaking story of secrets too dangerous to confess in a time of cruel, unforgiving and relentless intolerance to difference.
For fans of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, The Color Purple and The Help - listen to Meet Me at 10 today.
The complete trilogy
- Book 1: Shona
- Book 2: Meet Me At 10
- Book 3: The Beach House
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- FC51
- 29-06-21
Read this if you can - the narrator ruins it.
The narrator, Barbara Henslee, really spoils this series of books, which in themselves are interesting, tell a good story and highlight important issues. However, many of the characters speak with Southern US accents, which Ms Henslee tries to copy but fails very badly. Some of the voices she gives the characters are really dreadful, cringe worthy or laughable and every now and then she gets in a muddle, giving the wrong voices to characters.
It is difficult to understand why the producer, author Vicky Jones, did not hire an actress with the ability to speak with a convincing Southern accent to narrate this series of books. Unfortunately Henslee's shortcomings often make it difficult to concentrate on the story, or take it seriously, because the the bizarre voices she uses are such a distraction.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- John Lars
- 23-05-21
Topical and heavy
In a lot of ways this book, "Meet Me at 10" deals with race and how it was in the late 1950s in the Southern states of the United States.
With an interesting cast of characters "Meet Me at 10" is the second in the trilogy following Shona, the main character. It is enjoyable because you run through almost every emotion in your repertoire; from disgust to sorrow to hope to happiness. Although what this book isn't is a lighthearted comedic romantic listen. It is topical and heavy.
The narration handled the prose admirably and would definitely recommend it - although a warning you will want to also listen to the last concluding part. If anything you like have come from the first part "Every Small Town Has It's Secrets"
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