Review: Excellent!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 22, 2011
The characters are amazing, believable--and real and knowable. There's a sense of time and place, of chronology, of realism between the different time periods.I knew Heather Albano's work previously through Choice of Games, so I knew she was a good writer already, but this just proves it. Definitely worth reading!My one complaint is the French dialogue parts. I'm fluent in French and so the mistakes were rather glaring and jolted me out of the story, but that's no reason not to read it or to blame the author. Traditionally published authors also have a history of not getting natives to check their foreign language bits (Scott Westerfeld, I'm looking at you! *amused*)I do wish the characters could have gotten more of a break than they did, as well, but the weight of time and history is believable and the choices Albano made thereabouts are understandable.