A Heart Divided
JM SnyderHistorical romance
Available from Amber Quill Press
ISBN: 978-1-60272- 511-9
May 2009
| Anderson Blanks dreams of the days he spent with Sam Talley back in Mississippi until his father drove his lover away. When Sam left he promised he'd find a way to bring Andy to him out west. That's the only thing that helps Confederate Lt. Blanks get through the horrors of a war that pits North against South. When pickets are spooked by what they think is the ghost of dead soldiers Andy goes to investigate only to find Sam in a Union uniform badly wounded. How is he going to help the man he loves when they're on opposite sides in a brutal war?
J. M. Snyder again takes us into the midst of the Civil War to tell a story of brave men who try to do the right things no matter what the consequences. Though Andy and Sam are the central characters many others add flavor to the book that make the realism seem to come alive. The pickets, Williams and Lovelace, the surgeon Mendenhall, union soldier Herbert and Eli their medic, Confederate Lt. Wiley, all are important in adding suspense and decisions that prove the kind of men they are no matter what color their uniform is. The author seems to do a good job conveying the overall condition of the southern army in the late weeks of the war before the surrender. No matter what the odds against them some of the honor and pride that kept them going up to the bitter end seems to come through. Andy wouldn't desert even to help his lover. As frightened as the men were they picked up and carried on. This book is more than a romance. It's one of those tales that may help people take a fresh look at history the way Ms. Snyder tells it through her characters.
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Reviewer: Dee Dailey |
