A review by kamckim
The Coffin Quilt: The Feud Between the Hatfields and the McCoys by Ann Rinaldi

3.0

The plot is great. The writing isn't. The first two pages were stuffed with colloquialisms and an attempt to capture Appalachian language with such phrases as "fair hand", "middling well", "recollect". The stereotypes only get worse, a Primitive Baptist mother who prays all the time, a brother who uses copper for his stills, a well-meaning school teacher and a prostitute named, of all things, "Belle Beaver". I reckon I cain't stand this kind of characterization. It's a vexation to me. They's far better writers from the region doing it better'n this novel.