Zade’s Reviews > That Dark and Bloody River > Status Update

My second attempt at this brick of a book. It's not that it's badly written or uninteresting; it's that the information is so densely packed it becomes exhausting. Despite the narrative style, this is not fiction. Eckert relied on a vast number of documents to create an accurate picture of the events along the Ohio River in the late 1700s. Even dialogue is extrapolated from actual reports.

If anyone is still operating under the illusion that people in the past were more moral or somehow "better" than they are now, this book will clear that right up for you. There are no good guys here, only monsters of varying degree. My father's ancestors are in this book and, while I do not like them, they are among the lesser monsters, so I guess that's something. I need a thousand showers.