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My Brother's Battle

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I stumbled across this book on amazon.com and I was pleasantly surprised when I read it. I thought the character of Benjamin Honeysuckle was well drawn, and I thought that the historical details illuminated the story. This is a true and powerful story about the Civil War. It is also about how we must face our inner demons if we are going to win our public and private battles.

The author does a good job bringing us back to the mid 19th century. There is a poetic feel to the language that I enjoyed.

The battle scenes are very real, and they are written in a way to make us realize the horror of being at war. A very timely topic even though it was written about a time over 100 years ago.

I am not an avid fan of Civil War fiction, and I bought the novel because of the love story. It is a war story, a love story, a coming of age story, and so much more. I highly recommend My Brother's Battle to men and women.

This is one of the most engrossing books I have read in a long time. The scenes are so vivid and detailed that I felt as if I was on the Georgia plantation and on the battlefields of the Civil War.

My Brother's Battle reminds me of Gone With the Wind or Killer Angels. The characters are engaging and realisitic, and I learned a lot about this time in American history.

I read the book in two days because I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend it and I can't wait for Meredith Allard's next book to come out.