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Prelude to Glory, Vol. 3: To Decide Our Destiny

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Having read both Volume one and Volume two, I was looking forward to following the trails and tribulations of characters in Ron Carter book. And how he weaves these fictitious people into the birth of our nation, I was not disappointed and will be sure to start the next volume.

What an amazing deal! My book came to me so quickly and it was in fabulous condition! Will definitely order again!

This is a great book from an outstanding series. I learned much about the Revolutionay War and the founding of our country from this series. Because this book is historical fiction, it not only informs but is very entertaining.

We listened to this book just prior to our visit to Boston. It made all the difference in the world to us just knowing what had gone on before. I could read any number of books about the early American history but the book put it in perspective. I could remember the story vividly in my mind including place, people, and dates. Really, really, enjoyed this book!

This entire series was incredibly frustrating for one major reason ... instead of writing the story in chronological order so that the story unfolds in a logical way and carries your attention as it goes along he writes it in some order known only to the author.

The best example of how aggravating this was was the story of a British officer tied in a love story with a Boston girl. Because the author decided to write the story thematically you find out in the first book that the man dies a ways into the war. Then in the next book he is suddenly alive again, then he dies, then the next book he is alive again, then he dies. By the time you get halfway through the series you are way past the point where you couldn't care less about him because you know he is going to die, there is no big mystery here. It is not page turning by any means.

It feels like the author can't think chronologically so he figures that his readers can't either. I for one was extremely disappointed as I was very interested in reading a well written series about the American Revolution as historical fiction. What I got instead was such a disjointed, self-repeating tale that I didn't even end up reading it all the way to the end as I kept reading the exact same thing over and over again just from a slightly different perspective each time.

Also, although he gives a timeline at the beginning of the books you don't really get the feel of how the different events fit together in a chronological timeframe. How did the sea battles fit timewise in with the army's land battles? I'm not going to constantly flip from book to book to try and match a timeline just because the author can't write things in order.

The whole series was a huge disappointment and even a few years after reading the books the disappointment still lingers. Hopefully another author will come along and write the story in a gripping and yes even a chronological way. I hope so at least.