Through the
Deep Waters by Kim Vogel Sawyer
This
story follows a 17 year old girl named Dinah living in Chicago in 1883. Growing
up in a brothel with a loveless mother, Dinah has seen hard times and continues
to meet them. As Dinah gets older she realizes she doesn’t want the same life
as her mother. She is fed up the destructive
life of a prostitute’s daughter. Dinah wishes for a more meaningful life, she
wants to make something of herself. And staying in a brothel won’t help. After coming across an ad in the
paper looking for girls of ‘honest moral’ to wait on tables at a hotel, Dinah
jumps at the chance to free herself from a life unwanted. In hopes of escaping
her troubled past and making something of herself, Dinah jumps on a train to
Kanas. Once she arrives she finds out that she is a year too young to become a ‘Harvey
Girl’. In hopes of becoming one when she is eighteen, she reluctantly takes a
job as a chambermaid in the hotel. Once there she becomes acquainted with a
local chicken farmer named Amos. As her friendship progresses, she begins to
have feelings for him. But will Amos accept her for her troubled past? And will
Dinah find the love to overcome her mistakes?
This is
the first book I have read from Kim Vogel sawyer and thoroughly enjoyed it. It
does focus on a pretty sensitive issue that is vastly common today. Right when
the book began and you were introduced to Dinah, you could feel her pain and want
to get away from her life. I loved Dinah as a character and saw much character
growth as the story progressed. I loved all the characters, but had mixed
feelings about Ruth. Her character was at times annoying towards the middle of
the book. But towards the end I felt Ruth really grew as a character and liked
her towards the end. Overall, I’m
really glad I read this book and enjoyed more than I thought. I will definitely
read more of Kim Vogel Sawyer’s books. I rate this 4 out of 5 stars.
I received this book for free from Blogging for Books
for this review.
