Donald McCaig - Rhett Butler's People Review

I have to be very delicate with this review, as this book was a lovely gift from my family due to their knowledge of my deep love for "Gone with the wind". 

That being said, this novel has a very slow start.  The character development felt forced as if I may have a pop quiz later trying to recall all of the minor players. Yes, they all reappeared later in the novel, and the writer assumed his readers would research back to how they were connected to Rhett, I found the first two chapters to feel more like an English Literature assignment than recreational reading.  I continued to read, however, with a gigantic smile on my face with my family watching.

By the third chapter, the author begins to blend the background of Rhett Butler with the story we all know and love and from that point on the book really takes a lover of the original story to places you never had been before and reveals events we never really understood!  Silly women!  I loved Belle Watling more than ever and the unbelievalble gentleman Rhett Butler was, in all his ruthless manliness, was more attractive than I even remembered him being in my highest level of hormonal teenage rages!  Scarlett was a fool, and the way the author skirts so closely to the genuine article in portions of this novel is scintillating.  Kudos!

Yes, I would recommend this to a true die-hard fan of Gone with the wind.  And any man who wants to know how to love a woman.