Jonathan M. (NavyJedi) reviewed The craziest Civil War story you will ever read on 10/6/2008

Helpful Score: 3

Unicorns, wizards, flying carpets... and Robert E. Lee? Harry Turtledove turns the American Civil War on its head with Sentry Peak, the first in a trilogy of a fantasy world engaged in a civil war. The rural northern lords, wearing blue, secede when King Avram is elected to the throne. The shopkeepers and storeclerks of the south array themselves in gray and the war commences. Along the way, the blonde haired blue eyed serfs to the northrons( as they are called) live under the shadow of tyranny and opression.

Turtledove makes this fun, almost tongue in cheek the whole time. Characters and places have similar names to their real life counterparts, or plays on words. For example, Nonesuch stands in for Richmond, Georgia is Peachtree Province, and James Longstreet is Earl James of Broadpath. Not bad, but definitly not a serious read either.

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