It took me a bit to get used to the author's very different writing style and figure out just what was going on but then I got hooked and wanted to know what happened! It's one of those books that you keep thinking about long afterward.

2.5
I'm going to be in the minority here I know. I didn't care for the "unique" writing style, as some reviewers put it. And didn't care for the characters. However I did read to the end and glad I did -- the author pulls all the threads together in a realistic way, which was good. And who knew that Oregon's constitution prohibited blacks from living in the state. That and the issue of the KKK not just being a southern issue was interesting and a fact I was unaware of.