Title: Reading Alternate History - and Loving It
Product review: I love alternate histories! The fun of trying to second-guess the ripples in society caused by some single world-changing event keeps me reading long into the night.With Lion's Blood, Mr. Barnes has done an incredible job of creating a world with an authentic feel. In his alternate history, the American continent is colonized by African peoples who import Europeans as slave labor. It is easy to imagine a writer overdoing this situation as a racio-political diatribe, but Mr. Barnes avoids this trap. What he has written is a STORY, containing memorable characters in an exciting, well-reasoned milieu. As an alternate history fan, I had a lot of fun with the way he worked out the basic concept of this world. As a reader, I was entranced by the emotional reality of his various characters.I'd love to see more of this world!
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