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Reviewed by Michelle Randall for Readers' Favorite
For Saffron, growing up during the Civil War has meant that normal life and all the things she dreamed of doing like her older sisters has been put on hold. She will never get her debutante's ball, or the courting and dancing that she always thought would happen. She's not angry, just tired of missing out, and even more tired of being stuck in her room. When she decides to sneak out to the barn one afternoon, a chance encounter with a Union soldier trying to make it home to his sick father becomes an adventure that will fill her dreams for the next three years of the war. Once the war is over, she works beside her brother in the Reburial unit, bringing Union soldiers buried during the fighting back to the North. Suddenly, Zeke Boone is back in her life. The Forgotten Debutante by Becky Lower is a heartwarming story of a girl who puts her emotions into something worthy. When she hears of soldiers being buried during the fighting, she makes it her mission to develop a cataloging system to help document their whereabouts.
Author Becky Lower gives the reader a story that features something more than your spoiled rich girl. The Forgotten Debutante is the ninth book in the Cotillion Ball Series, but I will tell you right now, you do not need to have read them all to understand this book. I have not read any of the previous books, and this one stands on its own just fine. Of course there are some references to Saffron's sisters and their marriages and I wonder if they might be in some of those other books, because I am curious about them now, but it didn't affect the reading of this book. Author Becky Lower did a wonderful job of making this book stand on its own.
