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David Coffey djangoheraclitus — This book was heading for a five star rating, but there's a rather long chunk towards the end which dragged towards three starts. A little editing, and this would have been brilliant . . . The part of the book that works is the "diary" of Octavian, a young black man, written just before and during the American revolution. Octavian grows up in a bizarre household, unaware that he his a slave owned by a scientific society and that his entire life is in fact their science project. Anderson writes in a pseudo-victorian style, which he does very well, and allows him to push both the content and style over the edge and yet still work in a gothic- bohemian tradition. Although the entire book is "realistic fiction," there is a tint of magical realism about the entire thing; there are no "magical" events to point to, but the phantasmagorical household and cruelly logical scientists have the shape of the grotesque. The themes of the book -- identity, racism, prejudice and hatred disguised as logic -- are writ large and unsubtle, but work, both because YA is forgiving when it comes to thematic over-indulgence and the psuedo-victorian allows for excess. Octavian's voice is tragic and moving, and Anderson perfectly allows him to slowly grow into the realization of the lies that have been woven about his entire existence. When Anderson occasionally slips in a bit of graphic violence, its shock is truly shocking. So why Anderson feel that he needs to change point of view and spend (what feels like) an endless chunk of the book told through epistles written home by a dopey revolutionary soldier is a mystery. Throughout the text Anderson occasionally inserts one or two page textual digressions -- an advertisement for the capture of a run away slave, a letter from the head of the scientific society to his financial backers -- and these short interruptions add to the depth of the world and provide welcome diversity of voice. But he picks the most annoying of these other voices, Captain Goring, to monopolize a good quarter of the novel; after ten pages or so I started flipping forward to see how much longer I'd have to suffer through his boring prose, and it went on, and and on and on. Had I not loved the first 3/4 and found that the book did get back to Ocvatian's diaries, I probably would have stopped reading the book. Still, even with this huge, gaping flaw, the parts that work work so well that I loved the book and will definitely read the sequel.

Kelly Wagner kwagne — hmmm, i am still mulling it over, but i liked parts of this book, and i am glad she concluded the serics, but not sure how i feel about her choices...more once i have more clarity