If you liked The Kitchen House, you will enjoy reading this book. Excellent author and storyteller.

I absolutely loved The Kitchen House and was so thrilled to receive a copy of this book and I wasn't disappointed! Absolutely LOVE how Grissom writes and this story was a complete Home Run for me! I loved how she used some of the same characters from The Kitchen House and I was instantly absorbed into the the story and really loved character development! I will definitely recommend both these books to everyone!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a free e-copy of this book to read and review. These comments are my own.
This is a sequel to the "The Kitchen House' by Kathleen Grissom, which I read some time ago and also really enjoyed. I love a good historical fiction novel and this one does not disappoint! Jamie Pyke, was born after the master of a Virginia plantation raped one of his slaves. This story takes place in the early 1800's, when Jamie is grown up and currently living in PA, after having running away from Virginia at 13-yo to hide from a horrendous crime he committed. Even though Jamie was born to a black slave, he looks white and is living a high life thanks to a family that took him in. However, his life as he knows it is in jeopardy because his biological secrets have been discovered. Eventually he returns to PA to help rescue a young child who he hears has been taken back into slavery. This is the story of his journey. Jamie has to face his old life as he returns to the South to help this young child (Pan), and hope that he is not found out about the crime he committed before he fled town almost 20 years earlier.

Kathleen Grissom appears to have done a great deal of research and creates characters that are well rounded and well developed. The story was so vividly written that at times I actually felt like I was right there with the characters, and it kept me fully engaged from the first chapter. This book is not a light read in that it talks about the difficult subjects of slavery and prejudice, but at the same time is heart warming and emotional. While this is the second book in the series, it probably could be read as a standalone. However, I feel like you may get more out of the characters if you read "The Kitchen House" first. It is not necessary but it may enhance your reading experience. If there is another book in this series i will definitely read it. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves historical fiction, especially Southern Fiction.

In 1830s America Jamie Burton is a wealthy silversmith, with a successful business and prospects for social advancement, but as we very soon discover he’s a man with a secret – his mother was a black slave. He’s passing for white now but in pre-emancipation America his carefully constructed and maintained persona as white man is put at potentially devastating risk when his lover Caroline discovers she is pregnant. And then, to make matters worse his beloved servant Pan is captured and sold into slavery. This is the basic plot outline but there are many twists and turns along the way in this enjoyable if sometimes far-fetched romantic adventure story. It’s narrated with dash and flair and largely avoids too many stereotypes – although they are indeed there. The book is narrated in multiple voices, some of which unfortunately smack of parody, and the frequent coincidences stretch the reader’s credulity at times. But take it for what it is and there’s much to enjoy. Love, betrayal, courage, slavery, freedom, racism, passing – it’s all here and the author has researched her subject carefully and included much authentic detail. It’s fast-paced, less predictable than might be imagined, and all in all a satisfactory and fun read

My patrons have really enjoyed this book. If you read the Kitchen House this is a must read!

This novel is primarly about a mixed race boy (and later, man) in the 1800s, initially raised as white until he found out his mother was actually a slave, and his life passing for white in Philadelphia, and then a journey back to the South to recognize a young boy who had worked for him who was stolen back into slavery. It is a sequel to the book "The Kitchen House," but I think it would also work as a standalone since I read that book six years ago and didn't remember all the details. Not quite as good as the first book, but still very good.

This was a slow read, and not as great as the first book. If this is a trilogy, it is understandable, because of the 2nd book slump. It was still good to read about Jaime and see how he fared after the fire.

I read this book for book club, so I don't have an official review from my blog, so I will keep this semi short and sweet.

If you have read The Kitchen House, this book surpassed that one and I have to say I loved The Kitchen House. There characters and setting seemed so raw and real that although it was hard to read at times, it felt rewarding to see the truth through it all.

If you are a historical fiction fan and you haven't picked up a book by Kathleen Grissom, you need to stop what you are doing and remedy that!

I absolutely loved 'The Kitchen House' and can't believe it hasn't been made into a movie. I've been waiting patiently. I purchased 'TKH" on kindle, hardcover, paperback and given as gifts. That's how deep my love runs. Books about slavery and WWII are of my historical interest. In "TKH' was the first time I read about white endangered servants.

'Glory over Everything' didn't disappoint! I was so happy to revisit with old characters. I had no idea the story would turn the way it did or why Jamie decided to throw it all away for a debt. It's a heart wrenching rollercoaster that will leave you shaken and with the inability to forget what you've read and those who've suffered.

I read the first book, The Kitchen House several years ago when it first came out and loved it. When I saw there was a sequel I was interested in it as well. For some reason though I did not read it right away. I think I was hesitant because I didn't remember all of the details of the first book. Well, after finishing this one I can say my hesitation was not necessary. While some of the same characters are there, you can easily get pulled into this one without reading the first.

James Pyke, the son of a slave woman and a white man, is now known as James Burton and is living as a free man in Philadelphia as he can pass for a white man. He was adopted by a Silversmith and has become successful in that business as well as an accomplished artist. Against his better judgment he has fallen in love with a married woman who is not expecting his child. Fearful that the baby will be black, he resolves to tell her the truth. In addition, one of his servants, Pan, has been captured by slavetraders and brought to a plantation near his old home. James has a debt to Pan's father that he feels he must repay an decides to go south to find the boy. Of course, things do not go as planned and James must flee Philadelphia.

This is a very compelling book that looks at the complex times in pre Civil War United States. I won't do the book or the times justice in this review by saying it is a faithful representation of the times and the struggles that a slave or former slave faced. I think it is a story of people trying to find out who they are and what they will do to survive and do what is right.

1830: Jamie Pyke is a half white. half black boy who is a son of a slave and her white slave master. He gets the chance to become an apprentice at the story and workshop of a local silversmith, where he is taken in by the owners as their own son. He slowly works his way up in the Philadelphia society, and becomes loved and well known for his craftmanship. No one knows Jamie's (who know is called James) secret of being a mulatto, which was unheard of during the time the story is set in.
In this circle he meets Caroline, the daughter of a wealthy socialite lady. But when Caroline gets pregnant and Jamies secret leaks, he is chased away by Caroline's father. At the same time he learns that hhis beloved servant Pan has been captured and sold into slavery in the South. Pan's father, who once helped Jamie and to who he owes a dept, pleads for Jamie's help to find Pan back and to free him.

James sets off a trip to North Caroline where Pan is hold with a former slave of Tall Oakes, Sukey, who can't talk because her tonque is cut off by a slave master.oon the three of them are running through the Great Dismal Swamp, the notoriously deadly hiding place for escaped slaves. Though they have help from those in the Underground Railroad, not all of them will make it out alive...

I am so thrilled about this amazing and brilliant book! Recently I read about Kathleen Grissom's first book The Kitchen House and was thinking of getting a copy of it. But then I saw the e-galley of Glory Over Everything on Netgalley and decided to give this one a try first to see if I liked it, so I could later decide about buying The Kitchen House. And I know what to do now, get myself a copy, because I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the story of Glory Over Everything and Kathleen's style of writing. I find it hard though to start this review, as this book has so much depth, characters, events, historical reference, plot twists and much more and I don't want to forget anything, just to underline how good it is.

The plot was in one word outstandingly brilliant. It is seldom that I read a book written like this with so many plot twists. (and if you read my blog often you know that i LOVE that!) The story is set in 1930 amidst the period that sadly slavery was quite ''normal'' in the United States. It was sometimes chilling and horryfying to read what slaves had to endure, like Sukey, who stood up to her slave master and got her tongue cut of, or just the sheer sadness and tragedy of families, sometimes only existing of mother and a little daugher who where torn apart and sold. Luckily the story includes quite some white people who where brave enough during that time period to stood up to it and help slaves, like the kind Quaker family who helps James, Pan and Sukey when they are chased and hide them under their floor.

The story is told from in alternating pov of James, Pan, Sukey and Caroline, both in the past and present time. This totally worked for this book, as the author let them tell all their backstories, whic was very interesting and entertaining to read. All the characters where brilliantly created by the author, also the side characters like James help Robert, who never leaves his side and just shows his great loyalty to James in the end of the book.

Without any further ado or more spoilers, I just want to highly recommend this book, it reads like you are watching a great movie, which I think this book is very suitable for.

After being somewhat disappointed with Grissom's debut "The Kitchen House," I was a little apprehensive about reading the follow up, however I actually enjoyed this a lot more. "Glory Over Everything," follows James Burton (Jamie Pyke from the first novel) as he makes a new life away from the Virginia plantation. Despite having a lot of characters, I found that I connected to many of them and the themes and pace of this novel kept me turning the pages.