Weep in the Sun

Vane #1

by Jeanne Wilson

JAMAICA--LUSH, UNTAMED, STARTLINGLY BEAUTIFUL...
In this restless new land, young Robert Vane, English gentleman, came of age as an indentured slave on a great plantation....

Here he found Maria--vibrant, black, forbidden, his first love ...

Charlotte, the imperious, cold-blooded heiress with whom he would enter into a disastrous marriage ...

Lovely, wayward Ann, Charlotte's younger sister and Robert's temptation for too many years--until the day she became his sin....

And here he founded Vane, the plantation that would be his alone, a glorious showpiece carved from the dense, tropical wilderness.

311 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

Reviews

[Sarah Mac · Rating 2 out of 5]

This could’ve been a good read if the author had bothered to flesh out various plotlines & dig into the characterizations, but instead it feels like a story-block draft of a 600-pg saga. Everything is rushed through with great honkin’ time gaps & talking heads going through the motions of predictable vignettes…not unreadable, but utterly skimmable &, ultimately, forgettable. (It covers 30+ years in 300 pgs, ffs. Slow down, where’s the fire?! 🙈)

This duology is HTF & pricey on the vintage pb circuit, but I’m guessing that’s due to the cover(s) more than the content. 😶 Read BONNAIRE instead—another HTF & pricey plantation novel—to get a similar vibe woven into a vastly superior tale.


{Note: This book is part of my ongoing quest to pluck tomes I’ve had unread for 7+ years & either love-and-keep or DNF-and-donate.}