Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac

Here is a civil war novel about a boy aboard the Union's Monitor. Not a bad book, but it is really the reader's interest in this bizarre battle and the advent of ironsides in naval battles that really carry the story along. This is to say that fascination in history and not a fascinating in the plot makes the book move along.

The side stories about young Tom Carroll are fine. There is a conniving copperhead spy who forms the first plot, and the actual battle with the Merrimac forms the second. 3 Stars.