Review: I wanted to like this book...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 2, 2013
I wanted to like this book, really I did. It was well written. I was able to believe in the hero's psychic abilities. However, other parts of the book seemed too unlikely. Both Young Massa and Old Massa were brutal, unfeeling men- but on several occasions slaves fought them verbally or physically. The mortality rate among decent and admirable men was so high, I found myself predicting that each new character would die long before he did. The references to 'the railroad' co-mingled actual railroads and the Underground Railroad, so that I was never quite sure which was being referred to. The author also used a dreamworld in which Jelani saw things happening at a distance, and at times I was uncertain whether he was seeing things in the dreamworld or they were actually happening.