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Originally Posted by kansaskyle
Major liberties!
I stopped reading soon after she got on a literal underground railcar pulled by a steam engine. The skyscraper in South Carolina really perturbed my sense of accuracy in historical fiction.
I get what the author was trying to do in taking the last 150 or so years and condensing it into a fictional work loosely based on the underground railroad, but it was just too much for to keep reading.
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"Major liberties"? It's obviously speculative alt-history. The blurb makes that abundantly clear, as does every review I've ever read of it.