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Title: Avoid this One and save your time and money
Review: Eric Flint is a learned and knowledgeable historian with a splendid imagination. He has co authored a number of good alternative history books with David Drake and his 1632 was excellent. Left to his own devices, however, or with a lesser editor, he becomes lost in the twists and twirls of his own highly nuanced world. He has a difficult time sustaining realistic characters. (Pretty much the same set of heros again and again.) Here, another reviewer compared this to reading a high school newspaper, which is apt -- but more likely one will find as much benefit reading off of Flint's fan website and finding that various folks have given additional life to his characters in his alternate universe. So let's join those who hope that he will return to the main flow, with a better editor and prove himself an independent success.
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