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Alternate history master Eric Flint returns to top form with an epic addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. A cosmic accident sets the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe and a new nation is forged. Now after carving a place for itself among the struggling powers of Western Europe, Grantville must throw up its eastern bulwarks against Dark Age domination. But the challenge for the down-time Eastern European horde is just as great: how to crawl out of a deeper feudal shadow than any in the west–and step into the light of freedom.
About Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire series:
“This alternate history series is…a landmark…”—Booklist
“[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.”—Booklist
“…reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis…”—Publishers Weekly
“…each new entry appears better than the previous one, a seemingly impossible feat…terrific.”—Midwest Book Review
“[C]ombines accurate historical research with bold leaps of the imagination.”—Library Journal
About the Author
Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction, with over three million books in print. He’s the author/creator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “Belisarius” alternate Roman history series, including, and with David Weber collaborated on 1633 and 1634: The Baltic War. Flint was for many years a labor union activist. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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3.4 out of 5 stars (31 customer reviews)
38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Setting the stage, Oct 3 2010
By G. Peter Wityk "Peter Wityk" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: 1635: The Eastern Front (Hardcover)
This book was a bit of a disappointment. Flint has done much better work in this series.First, it is clearly a stage setting book. The amount of action feels less than the other books in the series. People are moved hither and yon according to the whims of a director and a script that we don't see. The stage is being set for the next book ( or two ) in the series.
Second, the narrative drags in places. There is too much expository, too much politics in action and too much dictation by Flint to the reader.
Third, Gustav Adolph was becoming the bull in the china shop which seems to limit what Flint wanted to do or where he wanted to go. The reader may or may not agree with Flint's solution to that issue.
That being said, I read it in one night just to know where the player were going and how the stage would be set for the next book. Flint is not yet at the stage where his laundry lists are interesting reading. But, he is getting there. If you are willing to accept the three caveats I list and want to be ready for the next book, then this is a must have.
33 of 36 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent pallette cleanse, but I encourage a better edit, Oct 16 2010
By Jason Wills-Starin "preserver3" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: 1635: The Eastern Front (Hardcover)
This book starts off with that same, perfect build up formula, those of you reading this review know is an Eric Flint joyride. For several painful books, this series has languished in Dreeson incident and political intrigues, but this is the 30 years war and it is again time to fight some battles. Flint does not disappoint here. He summarizes events for those who might be catching up, but you need 1632, 1633, the Ram's Rebellion, and maybe some of the Italian stuff to get the real feel for this, but the Dreeson incident gets 6 direct references, all couched in language that does not disappoint if you fell asleep during those novels.*Minor Spoiler, mostly just an expansion on the blurb*
This is Eric Flint's book though, and he's got a ride for you. This is not a three stooges trek, this is a story in four main perspectives that follows the CoC, an Assassination plot, a war campaign featuring newly minted General Mike Stearns (and a new Colonel we all know) and something else that would be a spoiler. There are several other characters handled, but those 4 mains really move this story and advance us several months and several major plot points forward. I'd encourage anyone wanting to read this book to finish the earlier books through Canon law, at the very least, before challenging this, and Ring of Fire one and two, the Gazette 1 and maybe even Gazette's 2 and 3 first.
Why did I give it 4 stars?
Because like many books coming from Baen and even Tor where Weber is publishing, need a better copy editor. The first few sections are great, but while I am not a perfect grammarian, any copy that gets through this mangled hurts the readability of the book. We're buying hardback, please fix this before it gets to mass market or paperback. These aren't mere flubs, they're some passages that make you write the correction in the book in pen instead of pencil, so someone else doesn't have to stare at a page for a few minutes and try and figure out what that set of sentences meant. These are isolated incidents though, worsening in section 5 if I remember correctly and plaguing the book until the end with slightly less frequency. Other than that, this is a book for the keep pile, in dust jacket it joins the other books and I am again proud to continue reading the series.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
After this, everything changes..., Oct 5 2010
By G. Mackenzie "gmackenz" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: 1635: The Eastern Front (Hardcover)
I agree with the other book reviewer that this is not one of Eric's better works, it almost seems a series of interesting sketches for a couple of books. I find there's a dearth of character interaction and discovery in comparison with most of the other novels and stories in this series, I miss that. That said, this book seems to have been designed to really shake things up in the 1635verse. It certainly achieved that goal. I have no idea what's going to happen next to whom. So the stage is certainly set for interesting events (just like the proverb: "May you live in interesting times." If you enjoyed the main books of this series written or directly co-written by Eric Flint you might have some issues with this book but will find it necessary for the direct sequel published next year in 2011. If you are more of a fan of the stories/books written with or by Andrew Dennis, Virginia deMarce, David Caruco, Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett, you may find this book less enjoyable.
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