Helpful Score: 1
Just in case you didn't read the entire title, this is a novel. Which means the author takes literary license, a lot of literary license. I've read dozens of books about Lincoln, who is easiest my all-time favorite historical personage. So I can be very critical about how authors treat him.
At the end of the book the author admits he wrote "...an imaginative re-creation of life as a young Abe Lincoln might have lived it..." However, for the incidents in the book and some of people Lincoln interacts with, the author maintains he did a lot of research to stick close to what happened back then.
I did find the story interesting, but some scenes were a bit over done. And I was confused at the end when he lets the reader know---more than once--one event was going to happen before another, but then has the second scheduled event occurring first. And personally, I refuse to believe Lincoln lost his virginity in a fancy New Orleans bordello. But, hey! Remember the literary license?
At the end of the book the author admits he wrote "...an imaginative re-creation of life as a young Abe Lincoln might have lived it..." However, for the incidents in the book and some of people Lincoln interacts with, the author maintains he did a lot of research to stick close to what happened back then.
I did find the story interesting, but some scenes were a bit over done. And I was confused at the end when he lets the reader know---more than once--one event was going to happen before another, but then has the second scheduled event occurring first. And personally, I refuse to believe Lincoln lost his virginity in a fancy New Orleans bordello. But, hey! Remember the literary license?
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