Long Live The Confederacy!

So I finished the book. It was meh. I don't know if this is really a spoiler or not, but the South wins (duh). It kind of had to, cuz there are like 10 other books in the series, and it wouldn't really be an alternate history if the North won (albeit 20 years later) and they (the USA) all became one happy family again.

But the book was alright. Kind of dry. The universe is pretty fun though, which leads me to the conumdrum of should I read the other books to find out what happens, or should I just read the wikipedia article?

Decisions, decisions...