Review: Excellent Civil War Trilogy
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2014
I think this trilogy is what made Jakes a real novelist. The Kent family chronicles were good but they were a developmental step between Barak the Barbarian and the North South trilogy. In this trilogy Jakes fully develops his characters and tells a multilevel story. He also captured the basic conflicts with a family and extended friendship. He still has a tendency to treat his women characters harshly (a trait he started in the Kent Family books) but over all the books are excellent and well worth the read. The books must be read in sequence or the reader will be lost since one book ties into the next. This trilogy is Jakes at his best and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes a good Civil War story.