lalala2004 's review for:

Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig

1.0

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This book is not poorly written, I suppose, but to consider it a prequel of Gone With the Wind is absurd. It's written in a completely different style and changed many of the characters nonsensically. It's like McCaig is trying to apologize for anything offensive in Gone With the Wind by making a book diametrically opposed to it. This is obviously a problem for any fans of the original novel. Complain what you will about Ripley's Scarlett, but that novel seemed more like a better attempt to be true to Mitchell's characters. The fact that both were authorized by the Mitchell estate makes it confounding that Rhett Butler's People pretends as if that novel does not exist. I didn't realize this would be the case and I was completely confused. I thought this novel was going to be the story from Rhett's point of view, not revisionist history. I wanted to enjoy it, yet I was angry after finishing it. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.