Blood & Sugar

The ugliness of the Slave Trade in the US is very adequately discussed. The same for the UK is less well so. It did not occur on British soil, hence the less we say about it the better. But the English were just as complicit in the horrors, and just because it happened “in the colonies” is no reason for it being glossed over. This is a book of Historical Fiction, but like all good historical fiction that i love it helps educate and inform me of things I did not know, and will spur me to learn more.

I read the second book - Daughters of Night - first, and liked it much better than this one. I find the plot convoluted and the story rather drawn out. It could have been way shorter.

Quality crime novel, horrific subject matter, slavery, child trafficking, government corruption. NO this isn't set now, it's set in London in 18th century. This is a story based on fact and it's important we hear stories like this. Brilliant.