This is an interesting historical fiction story, and one that took a small piece of history that I wasn’t familiar with which is always appreciated. Overall I thought that this book is for true history buffs, which to be fair I am not. When it started I had to double check it was a novel because it almost read like non-fiction. I found some of the dialogue awkward and overall just didn’t feel the characters were alive and wasn’t super invested. That being said I really appreciated the depth of the research that went into this story. I had no idea that after the civil war free Black people were kidnapped from America and brought to Cuba to be re-sold into slavery. It was barbaric and I was glad our narrator thought so, even if there was some awkwardness with his family history. I found the romance story to feel a bit unneeded and not developed enough, but I realized this book isn’t the first story with these characters so it probably was more important to those that read the first book. Overall I do think it is a well done historical fiction, just not quite to my won preference.