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Title: Romance - Not Historical Fiction
Review: Firstly, the cover of this book should have a woman with a ripped bodice clinging languidly to a bare-chested man. The language between the sexes is often racy, and the undertones always sexual, that is when they're not discussing the morality of slavery, which brings me to my second point.It is difficult to believe that brutal mistreatment of slaves was so rampant. Of course they all weren't treated as well as those of the O'Hara's and the Wilkes's, but come on...This book was hard going. I must admit I only read 36 chapters, but one would think that by then a plot would have been established and characters would be developed. But the characters were never more than stiff and unnatural.The only things that kept my momentum were the cheap plot tricks, which were always murders.The book's only redeeming aspect was the interesting facts about Charleston's and South Carolina's history. Without this, it may as well have been written by Danielle Steele...
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