Title: Dull as dishwater
Product review: This books falls into the trap Turtledove set for himself a decade ago with the Worldwar series: multiple characters providing sequential viewpoints of history as it happens. And it's gotten dull and boring.This isn't quite as boring and uninteresting as the latest 2 or 3 of his Great War books (the latest of which I couldn't even finish), but it's nowhere near Turtledove's best work. Believe me, he can write an interesting story when he bothers to try. See under: Ruled Brittannia.Example in point: the book starts off with the Battle of Pearl Harbor. You'd expect some excitement to the scene. It's a surprise attack, for gosh sakes, with defenders in a panic and attackers exulting in their success. But somehow the entire sequence seemed incompletely drawn and at the end of I found myself yawning and wondering what was on TV.
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