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Title: Not Alternate History
Review: I'm rather disappointed in this book. I do not see how this is an alternate history story, there's no change in history, other than the prophecy. To be a successful alternate history, we need to see how the history diverges, either through the eyes of someone that knows the original history, or by actually doing what is set forth in the prophecy. Something that didn't happen in this book. Huge passages are nothing but exposition. I kept waiting for an epiphany that never happened. This is not alternate history, and hardly science fiction. If it belongs anywhere, it's the historical fiction section. The description of life between 4 BC and 337 AD is quite good, but with the tons of exposition, if this wasn't submitted by a "successful" author, I doubt it would have made it past the first reader.
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