Review: I so wanted to give it 5 stars but alas No
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 4, 2013
Firstly the reason why I so wanted to give it 5 stars..So many authors have written about the American Civil War and the causes behind it whether it be slavery or states rights or economic differences, to see an attempt to remove the stain of slavery by changing history at the time of the Revolutionary War was appealing and the characters were interesting especially the interaction with a well known historical character and the story was well written.Why it ended up 3 stars...The story dragged, dont get me wrong I love a long book but this book I felt did not get going until the second half of the book, it felt the author wasted a large section of the book on part of the story that could of been told in a lot less space, the main premise of the book that our protagonists had to convince Jefferson that his plans for disolution of slavery would not work was covered in a limited amount of pages and once Jefferson did accept his plans would need changing we were just asked to accept that it would work....because it was Jefferson.I was just left feeling a bit cheated, I recently read 'Time Change Book 1 by Alex Myers' which is of similar subject matter but tries to change things from an economic point of view, I felt this was done much better.In summary, a good book and well worth reading but wasnt for me a 'I must finish this in one session' which for me is what a 5 star type of book is.Phil