Yesterday, I read Underground by Jean Ferris. The book is set in the 1830's during slavery and the main characters are slaves at the Mammoth Cave Hotel. The book is based on real characters - Stephen Bishop was a slave who could read and write who first explored and mapped out Mammoth Caves in Kentucky.


I liked the book for the most part but some of the dialog and parts of the plot just seemed out of place. I did like that it was a book about the pre-Civil War era in the United States that had a very unique plot.