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I couldn't see how Walton could do a novel about Athena and Apollo setting up an experiment to implement Plato's ideal city (The Just City), and yet I loved the result. Walton has done it again with an alternate history novel, a genre of low interest for me, and yet another one about Nazi Germany...

from tcgardner

World War II is over. Or, it never happened. Hitler took over Europe. Britain took Hitler's offer of peace. The US never entered the war and Hitler was able to turn his full attention to Stalin. The oppression and persecution of Jews and other minorities became standard throughout Europe. This is...

from cmc

Farthing is well-written and quite involving, but, ultimately, ends the way all too many stories end-with those in power retaining, or even multiplying, their power. In a library where books were shelved by their relationships to other books, Farthing would find itself nearby Ishiguro's Never Let...

from SandDune

I selected this one on the grounds that I'd loved the two previous Jo Walton books that I'd read, Among Others and Tooth and Claw, so when I was looking for a book that would really draw me in Jo Walton seemed an obvious choice. But unfortunately, while this was a good enough read it didn't grab ...

from starryharlequin

This book is very dark, and it earns every moment of its darkness. I have a deep and abiding love of alternate histories and alternate universes, and this is one done exceptionally well. The setting isn't explored too much in the early parts of the book, but the skill of the prose in those sectio...