Title: I didn't like this one
Product review: Generally I'm very impressed with Nevada Barr's "Anna Pigeon" series. This one is dreadful. She should leave her Deep South biases out of her books, a culture I despise to begin with (I had to endure one-third of my life in the South until I escaped in the mid-80s)--but that isn't the crux of the problem.This isn't really a novel. It jumps around through time, she was unable to create sympathy with ANY of her Civil War protagonists, the Yankee villain is a reversed Simon Legree (totally cardboard; I wouldn't believe even a Confederate jailer at Andersonville could be that bad), and altogether it's a muddle. Knowing I'd never read it again, I gave this one away.Better writing next time, Ms. Barr.
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