Author: Fauna Hodel

Genre: Biography/True Crime

Age Category: Teen/Adult

Summary: After her father, Dr. George Hodel, a prominent Hollywood physician was acquitted in a sensational incest trial, 16-year-old Tamar gave birth to a blue-eyed, white skinned baby girl. She insisted that the father was "Negro". Outraged by the audacity of their daughter and the stigma attached to a mixed-race child within their midst, her mother quickly arranged to have the baby permanently given away to Jimmie Lee, a black maid in a Nevada casino.
Overwhelmed by the problems of raising a white-skinned baby in her black community, Jimmie spent the next twenty years struggling to secretly raise Fauna. Together they endured extreme poverty, alcoholism, starvation, sexual abuse, pregnancy and death, hopelessly bound and knotted together by relentless bigotry.
Fauna survived this difficult world with a vow to find the one person who knew her beginnings, her biological mother, Tamar, the woman of her dreams. Fauna sets out to discover the truth, only to uncover her family's notorious secret: her extraordinary grandfather and the murder of the Black Dahlia.

•MY REVIEW•
Category 1
Word choice, punctuation, grammar, spelling, and sentence and paragraph structure

Had some misspelled words and punctuation errors.  A little unprofessional in a professionally published book.

4/5

Category 2
Plot, setting, background/stories, and characters

One Day She'll Darken is one of the best biographies I've ever read.  I wish it went more in detail about George Hodel and the Black Dahlia murder.

4/5

Category 3
Writing style and pace on the story

There are time jumps that I didn't know when they happened.  It needs to be more specific about that.

4/5

Category 4
Details and descriptions

Very well detailed.  Places and people described perfectly.

5/5

Category 5
Originality (overall creativity)

I like how it started from the beginning.  Fauna wasn't born yet. It started with Jimmie Lee.

5/5

TOTAL: 22/25