Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I completely disagree with the first one star review. Complainimg about 'cliches' was nothing more, and it was so apparent, than the reviewers own politically correctness coloring her judgment. My husband's family, I'm ashamed to admit, obtained their land in Louisiana prior to statehood. Their descendants still own portions of it today. The plantation house is on the state historical registry, preserved for future generations. As one who has read the old diaries of the wives of slave owner, these 'cliches' are scattered throughout. There are, in Louisiana, two family lines with the same very prominent last name, one descended from the white slavers and on from black descendants. The insistence on being referred to as Lord and Lady, by some slave owners was not at all uncommon. Yes, the character that reviewer complains about, May have come from the northern states but he was a white man who certainly had no ancestral claims to being an American.any of these men were descendant from the Brittish. Since my husband's family recorded every ancestor and to this day keeps an updated genealogy, the character certainly would have known who his ancestors were. As fir the maintaining of Burkes, why would a plantation owner,Amy generations removed not embellish on his activities, why should we expect him to know Brooks from Burkes? To me, this lent a flavor of authenticity. Finally, this was a very well written, entertaining novel. This author worked extremely hard to produce a readable and memorable WORK, emphasis on the word, work. To give a one star rating based primarily upon the authors use of common vernacular during the period in question was undeserved and downright mean. Further it demonstrates how the insane politically correct expectations of some people extends even to literature. If all works used such terminology and abandoned historically accurate manners of speech there would be no point in reading HISTORICAL FICTION, or non FICTION for that matter. Please ignore that ridiculous one star rating and enjoy your book. The book didn't deserve it and neither did the author. I am addicted to historical fiction. I thought this book deserved six stars but I had to settle for five.