A review by cj_jones
1632 by Eric Flint

2.0

I only made it fifty pages in, so you may feel free to take this review with a grain of salt. This is a book about The Working Man, and his heroics in extraordinary times. In case you need help, and can't figure it out from the plot and characterisations, the author is pleased to lend a hand to tell you who the good guys and the bad guys are. The good guys are very good, the bad are very bad. I don't know yet whether the rich people from town will be villains who sell out the townspeople to preserve their standard of living, useless baggage in need of saving, or good people at heart who come to realize that they should praise the values of the common man rather than looking down their noses at him. I'm also not a fan of the style of writing. That style is one which uses too many sentences to relay the information. That information is in those many sentences.

So for me these are a stylistic two stars--if you like a story of plucky can-do Americans making the best of a bad situation and banding together in hard times against overpowering odds, hey, you might give this a try.