Simeon's Bride Book

It was ok. taylor's writing style is great - very descriptive. but i didn't really identify with many of the characters; they were always sniping at one another and it got on my nerves. how could they work together if all they did was bicker? in addition, at the end of the book, the following sentence troubled me: "...________ was the fly in the psychiatrist's soothing balm, the nasty little Nigger poking up his head from the great woodpile of rationalizations and justifications and defences for the indefensible." what?? this isn't The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; this book was written in 1995... the story was pretty good, but i found it hard to be drawn into the story because of the characters' personalities