Title: needs improvement
Product review: Apart from the needlessly large number of typos ("Undo" for "undue," "wit" for "whit," are just a few of the more egregious examples) and such, there are just too many factual errors and problems with the story. It tries to be true to the era, 1893 Chicago, but the dialogue alternates between attempts at the period and all-too-modern phraseology. Are we to believe they said things like "student ID cards" in 1893? And references to the novels of HG Wells, who didn't begin his writing career until two years after the novel takes place, are plainly wrong. And there are the references to firearms, laboriously attempting to sound factual but again, just wrong. The author has someone shot with a Sharps 44 revolver, for example, but the Sharps 44 was a rifle. There are enough erors in the firearms references alone to make the entire novel's attempt at historicity to be suspect.Give it a pass, don't waste your time on this novel.
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