This is a well-written execution of a weak idea. Good alternate history is about what happens if something interesting changes in history. In this case, a rich, powerful and ubiquitous secret organization has agents scattered all throughout time in order to achieve its goals...but its goals are vague at best.Okay, so someone else is credited with discovering America, instead of Columbus. The book completely fails to give a convincing reason why that would change history, other than that the new discoverer is a part of one of the secret organizations. The thing is, the secret organization is seemingly so powerful that replacing Columbus seems to have no purpose. Columbus just wasn't all that influential, and there's no reason to believe that the substitute would be more powerful. So, the alternate history aspect is sort of like asking how the American Revolution would have been different if Benjamin Franklin had been named Fred.Both the good guys and the bad guys depend on amazingly unreliable methods for sending messages, ones that should fail more often than they succeed.The main characters are interesting, but pretty generic for this kind of story. Overall, fairly good and readable, but nothing special. While we were on a long road trip last month, I realized I forgot a couple audio books that I meant to listed to. So I pulled up Overdrive and downloaded basically the first book from an author whose name I recognized. This is the first book I've actually read from James Dasher. I had no idea it was a middle grade book before I started it. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing since good books are good books no matter what age they're written for. This book, however, is never going to be considered anyone's definition of classic literature. It was fun enough considering the intended audience, and I probably would have loved it back in the day. The real problem, though, is that it felt a bit like it was written by a committee. Considering that the rest of the series is written by a kaleidoscope of authors, it probably was. It was certainly a better use of the than staring out at the Nevada landscape, but I don't think I'll be reading any more in the series.
What do You think about A Mutiny In Time (2012)?
I think that this book is now one of my favorite books.
—mzalonzo
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