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A review by k5tog
1632 by Eric Flint
3.0
I love historical fiction, and I love time-travel novels, so what could be better than a book where a whole town and its surrounding area is sent back in time to 1600s Germany? ... Well, I imagine a lot of books could have been better... 1632 is light reading and enjoyable, and I will probably read the next one in the series (1633 I think). But it's not very well written, and the love relationships are hard to swallow - it's all about the "eyes, those eyes..." and it's all love at first sight (or love after just meeting a couple of times). The relationships were particularly annoying about the book.
Plus, the whole town of Grantville, VA is transported to Germany, but there is no concern about the effects that the American's actions will have on the future (other than, hopefully, changing the path of Hitler and the Nazis). I mean by changing the past, aren't these Americans also changing their ancestors and, hence, themselves. Nobody disappears because their ancestors didn't make it due to the changes the Americans have wrought... Sigh! I guess that's always the problem with time travel...
Plus, the whole town of Grantville, VA is transported to Germany, but there is no concern about the effects that the American's actions will have on the future (other than, hopefully, changing the path of Hitler and the Nazis). I mean by changing the past, aren't these Americans also changing their ancestors and, hence, themselves. Nobody disappears because their ancestors didn't make it due to the changes the Americans have wrought... Sigh! I guess that's always the problem with time travel...