This is the weakest book in the series. Roughly 250 of the first 400 pages of this book are a rehash of the backstory, and are really quite tiresome. Moreover, the characters in the new Mesan Alignment story line are weakly drawn. And it’s quite common in this novel for a character’s attention to wander in mid-conversation so Weber can fill in the backstory; three pages later we snap back to the current reality. All of this makes for rather heavy reading.
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March 19th 2009
Good, solid overview of the history of the Millers. Wish Stew would do a similar book on the Saints.
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March 16th 2009
This is the first of the Drinkwater novels where Woodman’s “found his voice,” as it were; while the earlier books were interesting and competently told, this one is more generally readable and the characters are more convincingly drawn. Well worth a read.
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March 12th 2009
A decent overview of South Bend’s baseball history; pics are good, the research appears to be sound, and some of the stories are quite remarkable. This book does, however, devote a little too much attention to the author’s own baseball career; I have preferred a little more about the Silver Hawks and quite a bit less about the most-recent recent incarnation of the Blue Sox.
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Posted on
March 5th 2009
