This book was fun to read and packed with drama and excitement. But of course, nobody wants to spend much time reading about polygamy--and the majority of the discussion about polygamy is how much the characters in the Steed family struggled with it and how terrible they all think it is. This is obviously an incredibly sensitive subject for everyone in the Church, and I think Lund did as well as he could have with it. It does seem like they resolve the issue pretty well and then nobody discusses it again, which seems unlikely, but oh well. I felt like he did a good job showing all of the negative forces at work in Nauvoo at the time, especially John C. Bennett and his cronies. The serious drama for the Steed family continues, with Kathryn getting struck by lightning and the terrible wagon accident at the end... and it ends with Joseph Smith being killed in Carthage Jail. This was an easy book to get sucked into and to read.
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