The book made me sometimes wish fiction were true. This is an American-style tall tale of powerful fiction. (again, as with the first book in this series, you really have to know your history to appreciate the differences and the lore)
At first, I was having a hard time getting into the Native story line having just come off of Seventh Son, but Card's superb story telling did eventually grab my attention. This is a beautiful, tragic story that leaves you with all the wonder of real historical battle stories, but with both the relief and disappointment that it wasn't exactly real. The hard part is that it's just close enough to what really happened and what could have really happened that it blurs the line between fiction and the real world perfectly. I believe that's why it was such a good story.
