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It was a good story. It's kind of like a parallel novel and a sequel all wrapped up in one. I wish it developed more of what began in Seventh Son, but instead it went off on a tangent that is probably related, though I am not sure how right now.
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Maybe the newness of the idea has simply worn off, but I didn't enjoy this second in the Alvin Maker series as much as I had the first. I still found the characters fascinating. And the plot of the history that might have been was pretty well-done, too. But the conceit of the place names, not quite the same as the actual place names, and of the people, not quite the same as the historical people with those names, wore pretty thin.
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Mar 14, 2010
Sofie Løvstakken
marked it as to-read