Book Review: Chains (Seeds of America #1) by Laurie Halse Anderson
Four Stars
“She cannot chain my soul.”
Award-winning young reader account of the plight of slaves in colonial North America. Being in Rhode Island or New York was no protection in 1776. Isabel was probably more articulate in her feelings, but those emotions ring true. Honest look at the errors and hypocrisy of both sides.
“It mattered not. My bones were hollow and my brainpan empty.”
Anderson skillfully wove historic facts–battles, destruction of the king’s statue, the fire, Hessians–into plausible descriptions of the life and observations of a young enslaved girl. The whole has a readable, authentic feel.
“Both sides say one thing and do the other.”
Minor chronological errors, but closer to fact than many popular Revolutionary War dramas.
“I was chained between nations.”
The Seeds of America series continues with Forged, previously reviewed.
As a Matter of Fancy 
So, fiction being presented as fact?
Historical fiction, weaving in as many facts as possible to increase the verisimilitude of the story. Very well done.
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