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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Now onto the next in Eric Flint's 1632 series - 1635: The Tangled Web, not by Eric Flint but by Virginia DeMarce. More a collection of stories and a novella than a complete novel. The 1632 series aren't stand-alone. Don't read this one first!
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Hmm... I wasn't very impressed with this. Far too many people, places, events and jumping around in time to be coherent, at least for me. Some of the incidents were done well, but just far too much going on, and being told from slightly different perspectives. So we'd find out about an event one way, and then the narrative would jump to another viewpoint, and we'd eventually see the event again. Working out whether a particular thing had happened when the scene jumped was hard - I just can't keep track of what had happened by "May, 1634", for example, in my head while reading.
Disappointing.
Now onto the second set of Bolo short stories - Bolos II - The Unconquerable, recently re-issued by Baen. And so far, I'm enjoying this a lot more.