North and South

I thought the soap opera drama of this book was very interesting and a lot of the historical facts and I believe gathers the tension in the country before the war but this book is so one sided. It pushes the narrative of “Good Guys North wants to end slavery and Bad Guys South want slavery and want the North out of their business and are willing to fight to make it happen.” The Civil War and the reasons people fought was so much more complex than just about slavery. That being said this book was entertaining enough with the fictional characters to make me want to read book 2, hopefully the rhetoric of the next book will be more bipartisan.