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Title: interesting subject; flawed delivery
Review: I picked up this book because it dealt with a subject that I knew little about. While I am glad to have learned something about the events depicted, I felt that the presentation was substandard. The subplots were pointless and distracting, the writing was almost juvenile, the characters were unrealistic and one-dimensional. Everything was black or white -- the participants in the rebellion were demi-gods fighting a holy war, the English and their sympathizers were the personification of evil. Not the stuff of a "good read", despite the interesting subject matter.
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