While Featherston is still seeking the presidency, there are two instances of a woman at a public appearance swooning over him. He makes a mental note to have his guys find these women again and direct them to his hotel room, although we’re not told if that happens.
There was never any indication of that. In fact, by that point, Colleton was quite dejected about having lost her looks, and Featherston probably sensed that. As JohnT observed, he didn’t “notice her as a woman,” and that was probably deliberate, to exert a bit extra and specific power over her.
Quite honestly, Featherston’s general sexlessness was a relief to me. In AE: TCCH, there’s a rather long run of one sex scene after another, including Flora Hamburger going down on Hosea Blackford. :dubious: Following that was Featherston having a summit conference with Willy Knight and Amos Mizell. Just men talking business: a good palate cleanser.
I’ve been rereading the series, one character at a time, just reading their segments all at once. It’s astounding to me how many foreshadowings there are in JF’s segments in the Great War books. And Potter is in every third segment, it seems. I was kind of on to JF by the end of the war, figuring he would make some noise in the CSA. Didn’t quite envision the events of AE: B&I, though.
The McGregor’s were the definition of boring. Though I get what you’re saying about his “style”.
Some personalized, some just his name. Actually, everything that was published in hardback originally I have in hardback, except I stopped the Darkness series after the first 3 books, and I missed one of the YA alternate histories he has been writing. And there are a few books of Civil War battles in a magic universe I didn’t pick up. But I do have the Turtletaub books.