Into the Darkness

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"Into the Darkness (World at War, Book 1)" by Harry Turtledove

Over many years of perusing the sci-fi section of bookstores, I kept seeing (and passing over) this Harry Turtledove guy. The civil war? Not my thing.

Perhaps it is a sign of my age, but at some point I got curious about these alternate history war books so I bought one. Then it sat on my bookshelf for years...

Recently I made the decision to either throw it out or read it so I read it. And I actually enjoyed this book. Turtledove basically took WWII and reworked the story with a fictitious world and fantasy elements replacing real elements. Dragons instead of planes, behemoths instead of tanks, leviathans instead of submarines, etc.

I had fun trying to figure out which leader and which country was England, Germany, Italy, etc. When I finished the book, I went to Amazon to read reviews of the follow on books - which were all quite negative. I'd be willing to read another book that wrapped up the story but Im not down for thousands of pages.

So I enjoyed this book but wont be continuing the saga. Not sure if I will be reading another of his books either. Civil war? I think I would rather read some actual history books first.

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