Review: I'm still scratching my head over this one
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2014
I think I have a fairly adequate grasp of the English language and I understood the meaning of every word this author used so I should have had no difficulty understanding this story, right?  Wrong.  This book just confused me.  Reference would be made to a certain character and I would find myself wondering who on earth that person was and I had difficulty figuring out how that character fit into the storyline and, in fact, I was not sure I really understood the storyline.  Also, I am not usually too upset if authors get their history mixed up and have some anachronisms in their books.  However, I will confess I got quite a jolt when I read this book and saw that this author while writing about people who lived around the time of the Civil War, had several different people using the term “African-Americans”.  REALLY?????  Unfortunately, reading this book did NOTHING to make me want to read subsequent books in this series.  I’m sure this author is a lovely lady but I just can’t recommend her book.  Sorry.