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A review by 1morechapterplz
Faith of Our Fathers: One Nation Under God by N.C. Allen, Nancy Campbell Allen, Marvin Payne
4.0
This is my review of the whole series (Faith of Our Fathers) since I read them so quickly it almost felt like one big epic historical fiction novel. I think it's saying something for how exciting these novels are that I tore through the series in about three days! (Granted, two of those days were during winter break, and reading was about all I did those days.)
Wow! The first thing I have to say about it is: there are so many characters. And not only is there an enormous cast, the main cast are the families of two twin brothers, James and Jeffery. Each of them have 5 kids, I think, and then there are a whole bunch of others. (It doesn't help that there's a Charlotte and and a Camille, a Robert and a Richard, a Marie and a Mary...)
But it is fun to have a lot of characters. One thing I liked is it was constantly switching perspectives, and while sometimes I don't like that, it was fun from the second book onward—every time it switched, you'd suddenly be with another character who you had completely forgotten about, and it just gave you a little jolt, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about them!'
Most all of the characters undergo a major change and they are completely different in the last book than the first, which I appreciate. War changes people, for better or worse. (Most of the change in the book was for better.)
With a lot of teenaged/adult characters also comes a lot of marriages. I lost count of how many times 'Will you marry me?' was said. But I approved of all of the matches (not that my opinions would have changed anything) so that was all fine.
I haven't read many novels about the Civil War, and I think this was a good first one—there wasn't too much confusing battle stuff and military tactics. It doesn't have really any gratuitous violence either.
I almost rated it 5 stars...I can't say exactly what held me back, though. I guess it wasn't the 'READ THIS RIGHT NOW!!!' kind of book that I reserve five star ratings for. But it was still good, so a solid 4/5 is the rating it will get!
Wow! The first thing I have to say about it is: there are so many characters. And not only is there an enormous cast, the main cast are the families of two twin brothers, James and Jeffery. Each of them have 5 kids, I think, and then there are a whole bunch of others. (It doesn't help that there's a Charlotte and and a Camille, a Robert and a Richard, a Marie and a Mary...)
But it is fun to have a lot of characters. One thing I liked is it was constantly switching perspectives, and while sometimes I don't like that, it was fun from the second book onward—every time it switched, you'd suddenly be with another character who you had completely forgotten about, and it just gave you a little jolt, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about them!'
Most all of the characters undergo a major change and they are completely different in the last book than the first, which I appreciate. War changes people, for better or worse. (Most of the change in the book was for better.)
With a lot of teenaged/adult characters also comes a lot of marriages. I lost count of how many times 'Will you marry me?' was said. But I approved of all of the matches (not that my opinions would have changed anything) so that was all fine.
I haven't read many novels about the Civil War, and I think this was a good first one—there wasn't too much confusing battle stuff and military tactics. It doesn't have really any gratuitous violence either.
I almost rated it 5 stars...I can't say exactly what held me back, though. I guess it wasn't the 'READ THIS RIGHT NOW!!!' kind of book that I reserve five star ratings for. But it was still good, so a solid 4/5 is the rating it will get!