Comments on: Fates and Traitors https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/fates-and-traitors/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Mon, 20 Jun 2022 21:26:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Catherine https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/fates-and-traitors/#comment-286018 Thu, 30 Nov 2017 23:39:56 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9704#comment-286018 In reply to Tara.

His family was quite something! Of course, they were all humanists, adamantly opposed to slavery and he still ended up where he did. Reading his vitriol (even if it was fictional) made my stomach hurt- sounds all too familiar to what’s happening now.

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For fiction, I thought it was good. I just have no patience for entitled white men these days (as you well know!).

]]> By: susan https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/fates-and-traitors/#comment-286005 Wed, 29 Nov 2017 21:44:36 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9704#comment-286005 Nice review. It seems a historical topic up my alley. I think I’ve been to all the Booth sites in DC. They have a tour of where he went & how he ran off the stage & where to etc. And there’s the Surratt house. Booth sounds like a selfish punk. I think I’d like to read this some time. It sounds like you thought her research of all of it was good.

]]> By: Tara https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/fates-and-traitors/#comment-286003 Wed, 29 Nov 2017 19:19:28 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9704#comment-286003 This is an interesting topic; I never thought much about him, other than the assassination, until I heard something about his background on a podcast (I can not remember how I stumbled upon this!) and I thought it was fascinating.

]]> By: Catherine https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/fates-and-traitors/#comment-285999 Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:32:13 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9704#comment-285999 In reply to Susie | Novel Visits.

If you’re looking for Civil War fiction I’d recommend it, but if not, it can get tough at times. All the white men complaining about the world changing and how they should be allowed to enslave others.

]]> By: Susie | Novel Visits https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/11/fates-and-traitors/#comment-285996 Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:43:42 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9704#comment-285996 I’d never even heard of this book, and while it sounds interesting, with only three and a half stars, I think I’ll pass on it. Like you I know nothing about Booth beyond the obvious, so that part would be educational, but I can’t take another entitled pretty boy right now. I do love the cover!

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