If you've read my review of GWTW you'll know that I LOVE it...love it, love it, love it. It is my favourite book of all time and if I could only read one book for the rest of my life it would be GWTW. You can imagine my delight, then, when I found out that there was a sequel written to it and I went straight to Amazon to order my copy and finished it within a few days.
It continues the story of Scarlett O'Hara, but if you haven't read the original then telling you any more will spoil it for you! What I can tell you is that, through strange circumstances and her usual act-first-think-later determined attitude, she ends up in Ireland caught in the middle of the war between English landowners and Irish tenant farmers...more commonly known now as the IRA.
What could have been a fantastic book just, for some reason, doesn't do it for me at all. I suppose my mistake was going into it thinking it would be just like GWTW and that it would answer all the questions and wonderingments I've had since finishing that for the first time. Unfortunately, though, it wasn't and it didn't.
Whilst there is nothing particularly wrong with the style of writing or the storyline it just doesn't have the finesse of the Margaret Mitchell original. The characters don't seem to have as much depth, the landscapes don't seem so evocative...it just doesn't ring true for me.
If you haven't read GWTW then there would be nothing to stop you enjoying this novel for it's own sake, but if, like me, you're an addict of the original I fear you'll be disappointed.