Deplorable acts against women and non-Caucasians are reminiscent of the happenings in southern states in the 1960s. Autism affects Sarah’s young brother Sammy as well as her aunt, Maggie. Social issues, subtly addressed, seep into the reader’s subconscious….sneaking up later, seemingly from nothing at all……much like the echoes appear to Sarah as she opens herself to the past. More importantly, he is the only one that can help her fix the past to save the present. He may act like a hard, serious young man now with his secret meetings and mysterious yellow handkerchiefs but she knows the boy she admires and adores is still there. She will be anti-Nazi whether or not she’s “in public” and she certainly won’t give up her pursuit of Jackson just because his skin is darker than hers. This sweetly stubborn sixteen-year-old will not pretend that white males are superior to white females and all non-whites. Not that “separate” had ever actually been “equal”.”Īs an Astorian, Sarah knows all people are equal she has always been free to eradicate ignorance. The American Confederation of States, using Sarah’s wise words is, “….a country that still justified “separate but equal” facilities for the races. Contrarily, now she feels assaulted by the past, tugged by history. Neverwas: Book II of the Amber House Trilogy is a mixed-up, mashed-up composite of time travel, ghost story and “what if”….in the most phenomenal way possible.Īs her new home, Amber House does not give Sarah the comforting vibe she’d grown accustomed to when visiting the estate-in-the-family-since-the-1600s. For those in search of “something different”, this is the trilogy for you.
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