This is an interesting take on history and slavery in America. The main character is not your transitional character he is neither good nor evil but somewhere in the middle. Mungo St. John returns home to find a neighbor has murdered his father and taken everything from him, including the slave girl, Camille, he loved. Mungo has to try to rebuild in order to have revenge. The story was slow to build up but riveting in the end. All of the characters made the reader think and Mungo in particular was a host of contridictions. Just when you wrote him off as the bad guy he’d show his process and choose morally. All together id recommend this book for sure, the writing was excellent and the story was well done.