Jon reviewed on 2/15/2011 + 11 more book reviews

I'm generally partial to novels of alternate history that involve real persons (such as does this one involve Mark Twain, General Sherman and Teddy Roosevelt). However, the author has earned some chops as a relatively engaging storyteller at times. What bugged me most about the book was some of the exposition that didn't advance the plot in some way. This is the problem with "big books" (meaning those that are more than about 60,000 words). I'd rather read a well-told and ingenious story of 200 pages than one of 600 pages that just refuses to hold me.

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