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Title: Errors Or Alternate Universes?
Review: I found this a good read with interesting characters. It's not high art, but no one expects it to be--do they? I'm reading the notes about "errors" with some amusement. The quotes from Saint-Exupéry and the references to King Tut can be taken as sloppy research--however, since in our world Elemental Masters do not exist, this must be an alternate universe, and who's to say that in this alternate universe that this historical event and that author didn't happen/exist earlier? (Jack Finney uses the Dakota Apartment building in his fantasy novel TIME AND AGAIN, which takes place in 1882 and it wasn't built until 1886, something he admits. It just works.) No one is writing a straight history story here! As for Misty's Lord Peter character, he is not Lord Peter Wimsey, so why all the fuss about him not being the correct age? He is indeed a homage to Peter Wimsey, but he is not the same character (for one thing he mentions he has three siblings, not two)!
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