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Rhett Butler's People
by Donald McCaig
by Donald McCaig
Christmas gift...
done now: As a standalone read, certainly it rates 4 *s. Having visited Charleston a couple times, I can visualize some of the locales. And the history is interesting.
As a GWTW companion/prequel/sequel, I'm not sure. The Rhett info reads true (although anyone who has read Scarlett will have to erase that info from their memory banks -- the 2 books have nothing to do with one another), and the situations presented fill in some informational gaps in the original. For example, Rhett's arrest before Scarlett goes to him in her mother's drapes [:-)]
The Scarlett portions are a bit jarring/grating, though, and the later sequence set at Tara seemed a stretch.
If someone is a GWTW die-hard, maybe steer clear. But if you want a good read with a different spin on some of the characters (Melanie among them), then check it out.
done now: As a standalone read, certainly it rates 4 *s. Having visited Charleston a couple times, I can visualize some of the locales. And the history is interesting.
As a GWTW companion/prequel/sequel, I'm not sure. The Rhett info reads true (although anyone who has read Scarlett will have to erase that info from their memory banks -- the 2 books have nothing to do with one another), and the situations presented fill in some informational gaps in the original. For example, Rhett's arrest before Scarlett goes to him in her mother's drapes [:-)]
The Scarlett portions are a bit jarring/grating, though, and the later sequence set at Tara seemed a stretch.
If someone is a GWTW die-hard, maybe steer clear. But if you want a good read with a different spin on some of the characters (Melanie among them), then check it out.
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