Literary Merit: Poor
Characterization: Poor
Recommended: No
Reading Level: High School
I could not follow this book or manage to establish a good idea of who was who among the many rotating characters and names. This is the second book in an expected trilogy but the third was never published despite the preview in the back. I have not read the first and I think that greatly contributed to my confusion. I felt thrown in to the middle of a plot and never got much of an explanation of what I had missed before this point. Similarly, the characters were named but rarely described and there were many of them so I couldn't keep track of who was who or what their relationships were to one another. The premise of alternate universe american history in the age of Thomas Edison and Nicola Tesla is intriguing but never fully realized. I couldn't get the plot or characters organized enough to understand and enjoy the book. ( )