I couldn't abide "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," so I was pleasantly surprised at how wonderful this was. As a huge admirer of Lincoln, I was also leary of reading anything that would make him seem less than the great man he was, so was doubly surprised. The fiction was woven in with the historical facts so seamlessly that I found myself nodding as if to say, "Yes, I see now why this happened." Really an excellent novel!