Always & Forever
A Saga of Slavery and Deliverance

Excellent story! I love to read about the old south and particularly about New Orleans. Always and forever is a well written thoroughly researched novel. Congratulations to Gretchen Craig. She has won another avid reader of historical fiction. Thank you so much!......more

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Not being a history scholar, I expect to learn something I didn't know in the historical fiction genre. This author did not disappoint. The story is well written and filled with the deepest of contrasts of pain to joy, rich to poor, male to female. There is a distinct message of hope and strength th......more

Very Smooth read! There wasn't as much violence as most of the other slave era books I've recently read, which was refreshing. Always & Forever was an interesting, almost soap opera like story line, that had you guessing what was to become of the characters and left you with a sweet feeling!......more

This was a good book! As a Louisiana native and history lover I enjoyed this book. The author was accurate about life in Louisiana. Her description of living through a flood and the horrors that follow was amazing. The antebellum era is one of my favorite areas of study so I was immediately invested......more