I was excited to start the book, but quickly became tired of it. The main thing I would say is it felt like someone was talking to fast, skimming over descriptions, missing key opportunities for a fuller development of the time period, the characters and why they were doing what they were trying to do. I live in the state the book is based in and was in some of the same areas during the same time., yet I didn’t recognize locations or events of the period. A story like this should be more fully developed with historical context and what the social atmosphere was at that time. I tried reading it several times and just became frustrated with the feeling it was all being rushed and never flowed smoothly for me.
The story is there, but not with this tone.