Meredith Battle

There were a few major problems with Go Down the Mountain for me. First off, it was one of those books the characters never really developed for me and I did not care about what happened to them.

I don't feel the story matched the description. It was said to be a tale inspired by families in the 1930s forced to move to form the Shenandoah National park. While Bee and her family did have to move, the majority of the book was about her going to an insane asylum, breaking out and getting pregnant.

The first chapter implies that a mother is writing this story for her three year old daughter but it seems unbelievable a mother would share this many sordid details with her daughter.

The grammatical style really bothered me. I know they should have a regional accent from Appalachia however it feels like little research was done into what that would actually sound like. Instead their "accent" seems to be made up with mostly just poor grammer, fake and hillbilly stereotypical. Also the accent was also not steady throughout, it would come and go.… (meer)