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Ok, first of all, I did not expect this to be a comic book! Call me ignorant, or maybe I just hadn't done my research, but I was simply interested in reading it following the hype about the movie. I was, however, plesantly surprised to find myself enjoying the comic book (illustrated narrative, excuse me) format and found it compelling to the telling of this particular story. I loved it!

not quite as good as Prep, but still liked it!

I can't improve on the first sentence from the book jacket as a plot summary: "Cotton heiress Peggy Nickles offers to give Otha Lee Sturgis, a black country preacher, the deed to an old church cemetery if he will help restore them. Aided by a carpenter named Joseph, who wonders into town, they begin their work - and are quickly opposed by Peggy's domineering sister and a racist community." Sounds like a great story line. Unfortunately, for me anyway, it didn't live up to the promise. The characters were so one-dimensional and (pardon the bad pun here) so all black or all white. It was a fairly interesting quick read, but overall just a little too coyingly sweet.