Bloodroot Audiobook

" I am a sucker for books about my home state but I should stay with our authors. Mississippi has more honored authors than any other state. Mississippibelieveit.com. Albert's book has an interesting storyline and good characters. I never read any China Bayles before. However, Ms. Wittig's knowledge of race relations in the South seems to be stalled somewhere between D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation and the Sixties freedom riders. I grew up here and I know the changes made and as someone who travels extensively with a black colleague and has a friend who dates only white women, I can assure you that it is no longer a hanging offense. The men are perfectly comfortable flirting with perfect strangers. The misrepresentation of the state jaundiced my view of the overall book. As we say around here, what you know depends on where you stand. "

" This is one of my top Albert picks as it adds to the usual herbs, recipes and sleuthing the lure of genealogy and illegitimate family lines alongside inherited disease. Quite a brew! "

" I really enjoyed this China Bayles mystery. The unfolding of deep family secrets is always fascinating, & the secrets in the deep south of USA always seem nastier - maybe it's the heat & mosquitos that do it, or maybe it's the history of the country that makes it so much seamier. "

" I MEANT to read BLOODROOT by Amy Greene, (I realized soon after starting this). Something labelled "mystery" is not something I would choose--even less so something labelled "a China Bayles mystery". I find mysteries to have many undeveloped characters, and lack of detail, but that is the nature of mystery. its just not what I like to read. But I started it, attracted to the herbology and southernness of it. It was an ok book, though a lettdown from just finishing the Big Stone Gap series by Adrianne Trigani. IT was hard to keep the family members and generations straight--a fact due to it being a mystery, once again--they don't spend much time going into details of the characters, the reader dosn't spend much time with a character in order to get to know him, and remember him. Nonetheless, interesting--"you want to find out what happens".... Though I would never buy a book by this author or even pay 50 cents at a book sale for it, If soemone gave another one by her to me for a gift, or I was on a dessert island with only this book, I would read it. Theres just too many other really good books out there to start wasting my time on China Bayles mysteries "

" Being an avid genealogist, I studied the family tree at the front of the book and so was one up on the plot line because of the strangeness of some of the facts in the tree. I did notice that Albert made a math error with one of the characters, whose birth year is ten years different from what's on the tree to what's related in the story. This is a significant editing problem, but it didn't make much difference in the story after all. I liked the mystery and the way it related to generational problems. I liked the psychology of it. I liked the ghosts' involvement, although I don't believe for one second that that aspect is anything but fantasy. Still, I'd like it to be. I enjoyed this book. "

" I thoroughly enjoyed this mystery. Set in the deep south it includes a mystery surrounding a central murder mystery. Even a few ghosts and unexplained happenings thrown in. Best one of the series so far. Now onto #11. "

" I rated this one higher than the others I've read because it was so different. I found myself missing the normal cast, but was drawn in. Quick read. :) "

" Such a good series. Learn something as you read. "

" While this was a nice change from the normal Pecan Springs murder mystery, I kind of missed all of China's other friends. "

" Warning - not your typical China Bayles tale. But a good read. "

" I was good not quite as intense as some I have read but a good read... "

" I think that this is my favorite of hers so far. I love that the mystery was based on China's ancestry. I'm intrigued w/genealogies and ancestry so maybe that's why I enjoyed this so much! "

" The best one yet! Thoroughly enjoyed the story of China's family. "

" Every one of these books gets better than the last. This one, complete with a Deep South mystery and a few ghosts (but not an overdose of the supernatural or the occult) is great. Highly recommend the China Bayles mysteries. "

" decent addition to the series; i enjoy the herbal information as much or more than the mystery. "

" I love this entire series. Informative regarding herbs and there uses as well as a mystery series that is very engaging. China Bayles is a terrific central charecter. "

" Great insight to Chinas past. Loved it. Some writers fail when they try a different venue but this was great as always! Another good read. "

" I love researching family ties so this was very interesting. It had all the twists and turns that real families have. One needs to keep an open mind when researching; you never know who you might be related too! "

" This was a fantastic story for its multilayered story lines, southern gothic elements, and historical elements. Not a traditional who-dunit by any means but something much better! "

" If I don't rate a China Bayles book, it means I consider it a 4, as I really enjoy them. I leave room at the top for ones like this, that are stand-outs within the series. "

" I liked the history in this story. The skeletons in the closet. "

" Not in Pecan Springs. I missed the town. And Ruby. "

" I stumbled across this author and I really like her . . . "

" I enjoy her stories about China Bayles. This one had a lot of atmosphere! "

" Combine herbs, murders, skeletons in the closet, and genealogy research and you have this book in a nutshell. "

" I stumbled across this author and I really like her . . . "

" Very good, I liked the departure from "home" and the family history. "

" I liked it better than some of her others. It seem to have a good story line, with real life concerns. I loved the herb anecdotes at the beggining of each chapter. "

" This way a much better book that the previous China Bayles mystery I had read. This particular installment of the series involves China invetigating her ancestors at the old family plantation. It was a great Southern mystery and had many twists and turns. Very enjoyable. "

" If I read this book first I would have never read any of the other books in this series. "

" China travels to Miss. in #10 to help her mother. Of course, there is a mystery to be solved tied in with ghosts of her families' past. It's a good story, but I missed Pecan Springs and those familiar characters. "

" The best of the series so far. "

" This was pretty good. I wasn't crazy about the way they portrayed the south (have none of these authors actually been here?) but the story was interesting enough that I could ignore it. I have the audio version and the narrator did a good job with the accents. "

" Not in Pecan Springs. I missed the town. And Ruby. "