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    The Freedom Maze

    Written by Delia Sherman

    Narrated by Robin Miles

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Set against the burgeoning Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and then just before the outbreak of the Civil War, The Freedom Maze explores both political and personal liberation, and how the two intertwine.

    In 1960, thirteen-year-old Sophie isn't happy about spending the summer at her grandmother's old house in the Bayou. But the house has a maze Sophie can't resist exploring once she finds it has a secretive and mischievious inhabitant.

    When Sophie, bored and lonely, makes an impulsive wish, she slips back one hundred years into the past, to the year 1860. She hopes for a fantasy book adventure with herself as the heroine. Instead, she gets a real adventure in the race-haunted world of her family's Louisiana sugar plantation in 1860, where she is mistaken for a slave.

    President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is still two years in the future. The Thirteen Amendment-abolishing and prohibiting slavery-will not be not passed until April 1864.

    Muddy and bedraggled, Sophie obviously isn't a young lady of good breeding. She must therefore be a slave. And she is.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 25, 2012
    ISBN9780449014622
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    The Freedom Maze
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    Delia Sherman

    Delia Sherman is a highly acclaimed fantasy writer. She is the author of the novels Through a Brazen Mirror, The Porcelain Dove (a Mythopoeic Award winner), and Changeling. She lives in Boston and New York.

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    • 4/5
      I am both sorry and glad for waiting this long to read this story. I hope there will be a sequel. The four protagonists got under my skin.

      Two US Marshals Eli Flynn and William Henry Washington get a prisoner escort assignment of their lives and they don't even know it. It is wonderful and frustrating to read about Flynn trying not to show more than he thinks would be wanted or accepted. Unfortunately (or fortunately) for him, he has very perceptive company.

      I loved this story. It is not only a historical romance. Not that I'd mind a historical romance. It's just that According to Hoyle is more about the characters' personalities and the way they are dealing with their issues than anything else. For example,'Flynn had always been a stickler for the rules and regulations, even back in the Union army. He played life according to Hoyle, and that was how he liked it. Wash, on the other hand, was a firm believer in seeing both sides of a story and finding the truth behind them.' This assignment will show Flynn that the world cannot be black and white only. 'Flynn had never been concerned with those shadows, not until he’d met Rose and Cage. Damn it.' According to Hoyle is a western historical adventure about outlaws, their reputations, corruption and lost relics featuring not only two, but four great protagonists.
      And a dog. It is an adventure with a hint of romance. The readers who expect lots of sex will be disappointed.

      The bickering between Flynn and Dusty Rose can be frustrating at times, but the moment they realize they must work together they are unstoppable. I love how Cage, who doesn't speak, gets a strong voice too. It would have been great if Wash had been more pronounced.
    • 2/5
      The Freedom Mazeby Delia ShermanNarrated by Robin MilesPublished in 2011 by Big Mouth HouseAudiobook published in 2012 by Listening LibraryWHO: Thirteen-year old Sophie Fairchild Martineau, a white girl in the segregated and deeply racist South, and from an old Louisiana family to boot…WHAT: is placed in the care of her aunts one summer…WHERE: at the old Fairchild plantation, Oak River (in the Bayou country outside of New Orleans) where there is a maze…WHEN: that becomes the portal between 1960 and 1860…WHY: via the agency of a trickster, a sort of Voudoun familiar who fulfills Sophie’s wish, "I want to travel through time and have grand adventures and brothers and sisters and have everybody love me." HOW: Owing to her summer tan and skimpy clothing, Sophie is mis-identified as a slave and experiences life as a a yard slave, a house slave and as a field slave. Blood relationships become complicated and the sense of family becomes more of a matter of friendship than blood. Not everybody ended up loving Sophie, so the trickster shafted her on that score; but Sophie did develop deep bonds and insight to race as a construct.+ This book works well as a counter to the common perception and stereotypes of antebellum South as being one big lawn party out of the pages/screen of Gone with the Wind. The author has taken pains to portray slave-hood with a measure of accuracy and; also brought to the fore the blurriness of using skin color as a qualifier to indicate race. Race as a social construct is further though lightly reinforced in the modern prejudice against Sophie’s step-mother who is Jewish.+ There is also the secondary story line involving Sophie’s own sense of freedom and independence as a young teen. Sophie’s part in the story in 1860 is over when she takes action that shows that she has changed from being a passive player in her own drama to a more dynamic one; and this in turn gives her the fortitude to take more risks in asserting herself in 1960. - I would have liked to have seen Sophie’s adventures in 1860 drawn out a little longer as it is not clear how the break (removal from 1860 action) was accounted for then. Somehow this seems important and something of a cop-out to have this gap. - There were a number of references to other books that I am not familiar with. I may have missed some double entendres as a result :-/AUDIOBOOK NOTES:+ Robin Miles provides a clear soothing voice that articulates the differences between the whites and the various castes of slaves well.- Sibilance in some passages: May be due to de-essing process or post-production compressionn.b. SEX/-UAL, DRUGS & VIOLENCE: There is the threat of rape in one scene; but no sex acts committed. There is a passage which talks about how the protag gets her first period and a description of feminine hygiene. Violence is threatened or alluded to (whipping; the punishment of one runaway slave having involved the slave being returned pole-bound and burnt ), but all off-camera. Sophie is struck hard in one scene. There is no drug usage.OTHER: I purchased a digital dnload edition of The Freedom Maze (by Delia Sherman; narrated by Robin Miles) from iTunes. I receive no monies, goods or services in exchange for reviewing the product and/or mentioning any of the persons or companies that are or may be implied in this post.