Donald McCaig - Rhett Butler's People Review

I love Gone With the Wind and was really excited when I heard this book was going to be published. The premise of this book is to give the reader a more detailed look at Rhett Butler's life and relationships. I wanted to know more about Rhett Butler because not much is told about him in the book. This paints a more human picture of him. It shows that he was more than a blockade runner or an unacceptable person. This shows that he was a loving, caring person who often did things for other people in ways they didn't even realize. Another thing this book did was to show more about Belle Watling, the hooker or whatever that Rhett spent a lot of time with. It showed that she was a decent person who just got caught in a bad situation of having a baby and being unmarried. There were only two things that I did not like about the book. The storyline would be going very well and then would be interrupted by a couple of chapters of Civil War descriptions. I like Civil War history but it was not inserted to the book in a way that made you want to read it. Also, some of the smaller details from gone with the wind did not match up to this book. I noticed because I have read gone with the wind many times and I feel that if the man was going to all the trouble of writing a sequel that was authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate then he should have got all the details right.