*spoiler alert* Highly recommended. It's violent, but the violence is a necessary element and appropriately portrays the atrocities of slavery. In a way the ending disappointed me because I want to know everything turned out ok for Cora but the author needed to end it as he did to hit home to the reader, safe and comfortable in his/her life, the unsteady and uneasy feeling of not knowing your next move or if you will be safe from day to day.