Yankee Stranger Book

I feel like the synopsis for this book is a little misleading. It sounds like a story about Eden and Cabot, right? A Southern girl falling in love with a Yankee? True, they're in it and they do. But I would say this is more a story about the Day/Sprague family (Tibby and Julian's children and grandchildren) and their experiences as a Southern family during the Civil War.

I liked the parts that included the family and Thane does an excellent job of showing what it was like for Southerners during the war and the relationships and interactions between Southerners and Northerners. But so much time was spent recounting troop movements and dry, facts rather then story that I got bored at times. I wish more time had been spent developing the characters and their relationships. Eden and Cabot's relationship, which was more central to the book than any other couples' relationship, was a little shallow for me. In the beginning in particular I though there was more between Cabot and Tibby.

Other than that it is well written and had lots of potential. I just don't think it was quite realized.