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Title: Annie's War

Subtitle: Love Amid the Ruins, Book 1

Author: Robert W. Walker

Narrator: Francene Lockett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-13

Publisher: Instinct INK Books

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

At seventeen, Annie Hope Brown is a woman in 1859 when she conspires against the US government with her infamous father, John Brown, and his Kansas Raiders. These men are anti-slavery forces Annie helps prepare to pull off the first home-grown terrorist attack in the US. The attack on the US Armory at Harpers Ferry as seen through the eyes of a love-struck, idealist young lady who abhors slavery and falls in love with her father's right hand man, John Kagi. Annie's quest to see Kagi one last time before the dangerous raid is enabled by a spy for the government, a green Pinkerton agent recruit named Wesley Lane whose mission is to assassinate Annie's father as Brown has become a liability to men at the highest levels of government since the war in Bleeding Kansas.

The tables are turned topsy-turvy, however, when Wes Lane and Annie Brown travel from Pennsylvania to Virginia together (as they are at cross purposes with one another - and are both lying to one another). Their lives become even more complicated by their growing feelings for one another as they face the obstacles before them. A sweeping epic love story and historical thriller with the clock ticking out of control, sounds like a western, this is the first in the series. It takes time to win or lose a war, and besides, the novel is layered, honest, and unflinching.

Members Reviews:

A full-fledged telling of raid at Harper's Ferry by John Brown like you never read before

Rob Walker's account of the conspiracy to wage war against the United States plotted by abolitionist John Brown is a gripping love story, full of fury over slavery. This historical account is also a great love story, showing Walker can go back into time to bring forward the greatest folly of the young nation, including slavery in the founding of the nation.

Abrupt ending!

I can usually read any book and find something of interest that made it worthwhile. But I have to say this book is the exception. It started out very "wordy" but no substance to the story. I nearly stopped then but gave it a chance. Just as it started to become a bit interesting, it ended! Without a conclusion either! It seemed to be an attempt at an historical novel, without the novel, and without the full history.

GREAT LITERATURE THAT WILL CAPTIVATE

Annie's War - Love Amid The Ruins (part 1) by Robert Walker is one of the finest pieces of literature I have read in a long time. It is reminiscent of the great books of years gone by. It would hold its own in the class with To Kill a Mockingbird, Jane Eyre, The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Sawyer, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gone with the Wind or any other of the great books of days past.

The history in this book is so wonderfully interwoven into the fiction that this reader had to Google Annie to find out whether some parts of the story were fact or fiction. It is a glorious tale taking place near Harper's Ferry, VA, before the Civil War

It can be labeled as both a historical romance and a war story. It is a tale of two cultures clashing. Both cultures considering themselves to be the ones who are sane, and the other insane and it was a dark time in our countries history.

Annie's War is steeped in the history of John Brown and the days before the Civil War or what is called in the south The War Between the States.