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Title: The Voyage of Promise

Subtitle: Grace in Africa Series, Book 2

Author: Kay Marshall Strom

Narrator: Patience Tomlinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-30-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

She is safe, and she is free...but she is still alone. In the second chapter of the Grace in Africa series, slavers burst into Grace Winslow's life with guns blazing and tear her family apart forever. She watches in anguish as her husband is led in chains aboard a tightly packed slave ship bound for America. An old enemy has a more sinister plan for Grace and prepares her for a different kind of servitude in London. But Grace will not be enslaved. And she will not give up on the man she loves. In her determination to be reunited with her husband, she finds God reaching out to her.

Members Reviews:

Starts implausibly

I know that after reading this book I'm supposed to be aghast at the horrors of slavery, and I am -- don't get me wrong -- but the main thing I kept thinking in the beginning of the book was this:

Why, why, why did a whole village choose to live in the shadow of a slavery fortress? Yeah, the place was closed down, but how much effort would it require for slavers to return and take over their fort? I mean, these people themselves had been slaves in that fortress. Why did they stay anywhere in the vicinity? The answer: These are only moderately-well written characters, not real people. Any real person would have had enough sense to 1) move far, far away -- no matter what the difficulty. or 2) move into the fort themselves and use the fortifications to protect themselves. Really, who would choose to live next to a lion's den or a nest of snakes?

Goes deep, makes you think

History matters. Not just the dates and the what-happened facts. Not just the famous names who made their marks on important documents. Ordinary people also contributed to our history--people who saw the need for change, who stood for justice when it wasn't popular to do so, who never gave up the cause for freedom. Kay Marshall Strom draws wonderful word pictures of people like these in her Grace in Africa series. Yes, of course her characters are fictional--but they are born out of painstaking research, out of passion, and out of a desire to communicate present-day conditions through stories of past struggles.

The second book in the Grace in Africa series, Voyage of Promise, gives the reader an almost too-close experience on board a slave ship bound for England in the late 1700s. Being in the mind and heart of a man living this horror will change you. Our story's heroine, Grace Winslow--the estranged daughter of an African princess and a British slave ship owner--believes she will be reunited with Cabeto, her African husband, in London and live a life of happiness together, in spite of the murder of their son and being ripped away from all they knew and loved in Africa. Little does she know her husband is bound for the Americas--and no one in London, not even her own father, is interested in helping her. She unknowingly becomes embroiled in an unpopular anti-slavery movement, which turns sour and puts her in harms way--a place she has become rather used to. Grace is determined, resourceful--and, yes, sometimes impulsive and foolhardy. But she represents what is best in those who truly care about making a difference in our world. And she believes that she, like the biblical Queen Esther, was born "for such a time as this."

If you love historical fiction, you will love this series.