A review by jenmangler
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson

2.0

A lot of readers seem to really love this book. I didn't. I found it rather odd. Still, seeing the pre-Revolutionary US through Octavian's eyes was rather interesting. Also, I struggled to really know any characters beyond Octavian and Pro Bono. Perhaps that's as it should be, as Octavian wouldn't have known them all that well either. Still, it was a hard book to get into, at least for me, because of that fact. And I, like many others, disliked the last 1/3 of the book because Octavian's life was told through the letters of someone we'd not met and had no investment in. It was weird and disjointed and very frustrating.