A review by molly_dettmann
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

2.0

This book was so boring and slow and had a hard to read dialect that was probably easier for young readers in 1964 to follow than one would be. Lots of exposition. It does skirt around the “no side was right” and “the reasons for the war were complicated” especially with one brother becoming a Confederate sympathizer but for when it was written it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be in terms of glossing over the reason for the way being slavery and all that. Lots of Lincoln love towards the end. Mostly this was just so terribly boring I woke up early to read it and am now lulled back to sleep the rest of my morning.