I really wanted to like this book, the cover compared it to Gone With the Wind and Cold Mountain, both of which I liked very much. But the characters were very bland, stereotypical and unlikable, the dialog was flat, and the interactions of the characters left a lot for you to guess at, sometimes...
Well, I'm gonna be the rebel reviewer (rebel, get it? Ha...I kill me), that actually liked this book better than I liked GWTW, which I hold almost entirely responsible for the ridiculous nostalgia for the antebellum era. This book purports to tell Rhett's story, and while knowledge of the charact...
And shall not evening call another star Out of the infinite regions of the night, To mark this day in heaven? At last we are A nation among nations; and the world Shall soon behold in many a distant port Another flag unfurled! —Henry Timrod ALEXANDER KIRKPATRICK SAT on a hard-backed chair in the ...