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Summary: Unbeleivably well done, superb writing!
Review: How do you describe a book that is so well done, as this one is! It is really unbelievable that an author could write a book so accurate and interesting! Susan's journey from childhood to womanhood, from shallow thinking to deep is so enormously hard to illustrate with words, but Ann Rinaldi has the idea down pat! So few people ever look at the southern belle era as corrupt and evil, we look upon it as a fairytale life, with ladies and gentleman dancing elegantly in an enormous ballroom with chandeliers and silken gowns, but there were so many other things going on at this point, just as Ann Rinaldi points out. The slavery, the mistresses, and gossiping were also a part of this time, and she has shown this without using biterness or anger, in a lovely tale of a young girl who falls in love with a yankee. Susan's trials with her mother, brother, and friends, not to mention the ladies of Richmond society were so realistically thought out, there was no fictional magic that made her problems disappear with the wave of a wand and a fairy godmother which made the book all the more appealing to me, and it's characters more real, they almost seemed as if they existed! If you're interested in Historical Fiction, especially the civil war era, this is the perfect book for you to read, the facts are all told in detail, mixed in with a great plot!
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Summary: awesome book!
Review: This book is great. It makes you feel like you are really there. I love it so much i'm now reading it for the 6th time and it's just as good and interesting as the first time. I wish i could rate it higher than 5 stars or i would give it at least 50 stars.
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Summary: My absolute favorite book!
Review: Ann has come away with writing another spectacular book! I just love the way she takes Susan's witty character and transforms the girl into a woman who wants to stand for what she believes in, even though she does have to hurt someone to do what's right.
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Summary: I LOVED THIS BOOK!
Review: This book was the most gripping and enthralling book I haveeverread. I loved this book so much! I would tell you every single partif I thought this was a bad book. BUT IT WASN'T! Ann Rinaldi, you are the best writer I have ever read! This is one of my favorite books by you. My most favorite was Wolf By The Ears. Please keep writing more about anything you please! I hope to read your next books as soon as they roll of the presses!
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Summary: Best Book By Rinaldi
Review: The Last Silk Dress is the best book by Ann Rinaldi. It tells a beautiful side of the Civil War that no one considers. It is a must read!
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Summary: The Last Silk Dress
Review: The Last Silk Dress is a wonderful tale adout a teenaged girl that wants to help the Confederatcy. Susan's father is off to help in the war and her mother sews flages for the Confederatcy, but Susan fells she needs to help in a different way. after a few odd coincidences she realizes she has done wrong by helping the Confederates.
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Summary: Definately one of Ann Rinaldi's best!
Review: First of all, I'll say that Susan is my favorite character Ann RInaldi has ever created. She has spunk, intelligence, and bravery, and she isn't like a lot of 19th century women who sat home sewing all day.I loved this book and flew through it even though it was pretty long. This book, set in the Civil War-from the Southern point of view, is about a fourteen year old girl (that'd be Susan) and her disfunctional family. Her mom has a few screws loose and is really cruel, her older, dashing brother Lucien is the talk of the town because of the gambling house he owns, and her father has got some secrets of his own as well. I loved this book because of its drama and fast pace. I recommend reading this book at least twice- it wa sbetter on the second time and I picked up clues that I'd missed before that unlocked some of the family's secrets.
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Summary: Wonderful, Amazing Book
Review: This book was the first book I read by Ann Rinaldi. I read it all the way through with out putting it down once it was so good. After I finished it I went on to read every other book she has written and she is now my favorite athor of all time. All her books are wonderful but this is the best of the best. When I read it I became Susan Chilmark and I even cried when... well, I won't tell you what happens.
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Summary: It's was really great!
Review: I loved reading The Last Silk Dress. It is about a young girl named Susan who lives in Richmond during the Civil War. Her father is off at war and Susan is left with her crazy mother. Soon though she meets her older brother, Lucien. Lucien changes her world and her view of the war.
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Summary: ~Best book I've read!~
Review: I haven't read a good book like this in a long time! It was great. I think that if you like this book you also might like any other books about slavery, or the Civil War. If you have a million books to choose from, this is the best! I gaurntee it!
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