A review by librarianonparade
Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War by Donald McCaig

3.0

Reviews I read of this compared it to Gone with the Wind and Cold Mountain, and whilst I wouldn't rate it as highly as either of those, I did thoroughly enjoy it. I would have liked the story to continue beyond the end of the war; I would have liked more of a bridge between the story during the war and Midge/Maggie/Margeurite in the 30s, but I can understand why the novel just pertained to the war years. I loved all the characters - Jesse and Midge, Duncan and Sallie, Uther and Opal - and genuinely cared about them. So yes, a good book, wonderfully researched and fantastically detailed, but not a great book, I wouldn't say.