"One of the most engaging and brilliantly crafted historical works since Margaret Mitchell's great classic." Barbara Casey Author, The Coach's Wife .it was about the land. It is July of 1859, a month of sweltering dog days and feverish emotional bombast. Life is good for widower Rundell Ingram and his hazel-eyed, roan-haired son, Hamilton. Between the two of them, they take care of Moccasin Hollow, their rustic dogtrot ancestral home, a sprawling non-slave plantation in the rolling farming country outside Queensborough Towne in east Georgia. Adjoining Ingram lands is Wisteria Bend, the vast slave-holding plantation of Andrew and Corinthia Greer, their daughter Sarah, and son Benjamin. Both families share generations of long-accepted traditions, and childhood playmates are no longer children. The rangy, even-tempered Norman-Scottish young Hamilton is smitten with Sarah, who has become an enticing capricious beauty-the young lovers more in love with each passing day, and only pleasant times ahead of them. .but a blood tide of war is sweeping across the South, a tide that might be impossible to stand before.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Poor Research, okay plot.,
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This review is from: Moccasin Trace (Hardcover)
This is one of the poorest examples of historical fiction I have ever seen in my life. In most, well written historical fiction, the settings are real places, and really only the actual characters and what happens to them is fictitious. In this book, the author went further and created place settings and entire towns from nothingness. The author also uses odd terms like parishes which were never used in Georgia, only in places like Louisiana, as well as 'traces' which are really only found in areas such as Tennessee and Mississippi as established places. I would really like to see an author do a bit more research into the state he is inserting his fictitious plot into. As a resident of the state of Georgia I found it entirely difficult to relate to the place setting of the story, since nothing was familiar. He may well have written the book in space for all it mattered.
The only thing saving this book is the plot and the characters, which are decent. I would hardly put this book in the category of historical fiction, however, specifically historical fiction set in Georgia. Perhaps merely.. fiction with a vague reference to a time period in history, occurring somewhere in the south.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Read!!,
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This review is from: Moccasin Trace (Hardcover)
Childhood sweethearts growing up during Civil War time. Lots of research by Author. A romance, comming of age, Civil War, family and the list gos on.
If you haven't read it add this one to your list!!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful Book...a must read,
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One of the best books I have read this year. A must read.
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