Love in a Time of Hate
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A young man from Maine fights for social equality in New Orleans after the Civil War while pursuing a serial killer, becoming enmeshed in voodoo, and falling in love. Much like Louisiana's famous gumbo, Love in A Time Of Hate: New Orleans During Reconstruction is a spicy dish of varied ingredients. The main theme is the struggle for social equality between Whites, Blacks, and Creoles, but flavor is added with the subplots of politics, voodoo, murder, love, and hate. New Orleans becomes a literal battleground as carpetbaggers, scalawags, Creoles, and recently freed slaves fight against the entrenched southern plantation notion of white superiority.
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I wanted to enjoy this one more than I ended up. That's not to say it isn't a very well written book. It is. I just struggled at times with the amount of violence and wordiness of the story. I loved the characters, the historical angle, the voodoo. But ultimately it just never felt like the story really took off (if that makes sense?) However, I would still recommend trying it as I think it has a lot of great things going for it.
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