While I found a good portion of this quite interesting as it’s not a topic I knew anything about previously, the way it was shared was less than interesting for the majority of this book. It’s quite slow paced but I get the feeling it wasn’t supposed to be. More of it was boring than I was prepared for. I skimmed more of it than I wanted to - but I found a good portion of each chapter to feel pretty irrelevant to the topic and I just didn’t want to read it. 

I received both an eGalley through NetGalley and a physical ARC from Hachette Books and I thank them for it. Now that I’m introduced to this topic I’m intrigued and will be conducting further research into the MecDec because I am so curious about it! This book provides a good chunk of information on it, but as I said it was kind of a boring journey and I feel other sources would be more enjoyable (for me anyway).

I still recommend this as a jumping off point if you, like me, have never heard of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.