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NEW GOODREADS REVIEW OF MY CIVIL WAR NOVEL
New 4 STAR review of my civil war novel, A DIFFERENCE OF PURPOSE, posted by Kevin Reis on Goodreads on June 25, 2015:
"Amidst the time of the American Civil War, one extended family is facing the trials of being split between the two sides of the conflict. Jonathan Berkeley is a twelve-year-old runaway who has followed his deceased father and joined a Confederate brigade, only he has found his father's gravestone which has marked his father as a coward and deserter. His step-uncle, Alexander Wythe, is an abolitionist lawyer and captain on a Union brigade, who is working through grief and a crisis of faith upon learning of the death of his wife caused from injuries received during the 1862 Dakota Conflict in Minnesota. They represent two of a small group of connected characters whose lives are upended by the battles and moral conflicts of a civil war. Despite its short 220 pages, this novel proved to be a very complex and intricate tale that in its own way challenges readers to explore the loss of faith and personal questioning of purpose that arise in such a conflict. However, I felt the multiple intertwined stories, which had moments of confusion in the timeline, might have been deeper, taking its time to allow character motivation to be clearer. Still, the historical drama was very interesting and thought-provoking in its telling."
"Amidst the time of the American Civil War, one extended family is facing the trials of being split between the two sides of the conflict. Jonathan Berkeley is a twelve-year-old runaway who has followed his deceased father and joined a Confederate brigade, only he has found his father's gravestone which has marked his father as a coward and deserter. His step-uncle, Alexander Wythe, is an abolitionist lawyer and captain on a Union brigade, who is working through grief and a crisis of faith upon learning of the death of his wife caused from injuries received during the 1862 Dakota Conflict in Minnesota. They represent two of a small group of connected characters whose lives are upended by the battles and moral conflicts of a civil war. Despite its short 220 pages, this novel proved to be a very complex and intricate tale that in its own way challenges readers to explore the loss of faith and personal questioning of purpose that arise in such a conflict. However, I felt the multiple intertwined stories, which had moments of confusion in the timeline, might have been deeper, taking its time to allow character motivation to be clearer. Still, the historical drama was very interesting and thought-provoking in its telling."
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