by Jenny Davidson
I’d heard good things about this book, and they were entirely justified. An alternative history where the ancient Hanseatic League has been revived, this book tells the story of Sophie, a girl in 1930′s Scotland. She is a good main character and the plot is certainly thrilling. I have the sequel no...
On the Tiptree Honor List for 2008.
Another tale mired in the morass of books found to be intolerable. It started off well enough, with the intriguing notion of an alternate Europe forever changed by Napoleon's (and not Wellington's) victory at Waterloo, but it swiftly went downhill with a convoluted plot, a heroine more annoying than...
Napoleon won Waterloo and that changed history. Jenny Davidson’s novel starts off in turmoilous 1930s Scotland. Fifteen year old Sophie is in school when a bomb goes off nearby nearing killing her and her teacher. Then, a medium who brought Sophie a message from a spirit beyond is found with her thr...
From the 2008 Tiptree Award Honor List:This young adult novel is the first of a series set in an alternateGreat Britain where a certain percentage of girls are tithed off tothe government for secret service work. The gender dynamics (nevermind the spiritualism) is fascinatingly weird and deliberatel...
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