Love in a Time of Hate by Matthew Langdon Cost-review
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 25, 2021
In Love in a Time of Hate, a young man from Maine fights for social equality in New Orleans after the Civil War while pursuing a serial killer, becoming enmeshed in voodoo, and falling in love.
“A Voodoo ritual?” Emmett stared dumbly at her.
A young man from Maine fights for social equality in New Orleans after the Civil War while pursuing a murderer of prostitutes, becoming enmeshed in voodoo, and falling in love.
“Education is the tool that makes us all equal, whether we are Black, white, Indian, woman, or man,” Manon said.
Much like Louisiana’s famous gumbo, Love in A Time of Hate, is a spicy dish of varied ingredients. The main theme is the struggle for social equality between the whites, Blacks, and Creoles, but flavor is added with the subplots of politics, voodoo, murder, love, and hate.
And then came the Rebel scream, a sound Emmett had not heard since near the end of the Great War.
New Orleans becomes a literal battleground as carpetbaggers, scalawags, Creoles, and recently freed slaves fight against the entrenched southern plantation notion of white superiority.
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REVIEW:LOVE IN A TIME OF HATE by Matthew Langdon Cost is story of historical fiction focusing on the fight for social equality in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.
NOTE: LOVE IN A TIME OF HATE features characters first introduced in the author’s 2015 release JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN AND THE CIVIL WAR: AT EVERY HAZARD.
Told from third person perspective, covering the time period between 1866 to 1874, LOVE IN A TIME OF HATE follows former Union soldier Emmett Collins as he embarks on a career in the Confederate held state of Louisiana, to aid in Black suffrage, and the establishment of schools for recently freed slaves. In the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the end of the US Civil War, the African American population continued to face racism, discrimination and monumental hardships throughout the American south, but no where more so than in the city of New Orleans-enter Emmett Collins, whose battle to help the impoverished former slaves resulted in threats to his life, and the people he loved. As Emmett worked tirelessly to establish himself, the white politicians, the wealthy, and the Knights of the White Camellia worked behind the scenes to take down the former slaves, and our hero, one battle at a time.
LOVE IN A TIME OF HATE is a story of historical fiction, based loosely in fact, with the inclusion of several important politicians of the day. 1870s Louisiana is awash in Voo-doo, prostitution, murder, serial rapes and killings; political power and white supremacy, and yet, somewhat mirrors life in the 21st century. A strong, thought-provoking and tragic reminder of what was, and what should never be again.
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Reviewed by Sandy
