Review: 5 consecutive books, one months reading every night.....was it worth it?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 9, 2013
I will first state what I find good about this series;It tells good stories, many of them. The characters are well developed and easy to remember. I did like the stories and discovered a very different side of the Civil War. That would be the political side, the dark side. This was not pretty but it was very expected, the suffering was. Her explanation of the reasons for the war were thought provoking. I feel they were very much closer to the real truth than anything I have ever learned.And now for the rest of the story........I am disgusted that this book has been so sterilized by political correctness that all 5 books were ruined. First Carrie begins teaching reading to the slaves on her plantation and BINGO, every one of them speaks perfect English. Every slave she and Rose teach speak perfectly. Moses, who really was not taught very long at all is the most unbelievable. All of these slaves must have had super intelligence to speak so well so quickly. I do hate the N word and do not use it, but really! It was a different time and the dialect was different, but not in this book. And Guerilla warfare, really? And  bivouac, really?Women's rights? I think the people of this country were too consumed with the war at that time to start on Women's rights.