Book completed
Jan. 10th, 2024 02:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeFarthing, by Jo Walton. First in a trilogy. I hadn't been much interested in this book because for some reason I thought it was set in a small English village of about 300 years ago. When I found out that it's actually something of a thriller set in an alternate history of the mid-20th century, I became eager to read it. It's a murder mystery with two points of view - the daughter of an aristocratic family who's married a Jew, and the police detective assigned to solve the case. The main difference between this story and our world is that this is a world in which Britain made peace with Germany (and incidentally, the U.S. made peace with Japan), and of course this has huge implications.
(There's a second, tiny difference - I'm going to maintain that the people on this other world named their planets differently. At one point, the sun is setting while Venus is visible in the east, and I'm going to insist that Jo Walton wouldn't have made that mistake, so maybe on this planet our Jupiter is named Venus.)
I wish it had had a happy ending - we're led to think it may happen, but nope. At least now I'm forewarned for the other two books, but I'm also somewhat less eager to read them.
(There's a second, tiny difference - I'm going to maintain that the people on this other world named their planets differently. At one point, the sun is setting while Venus is visible in the east, and I'm going to insist that Jo Walton wouldn't have made that mistake, so maybe on this planet our Jupiter is named Venus.)
I wish it had had a happy ending - we're led to think it may happen, but nope. At least now I'm forewarned for the other two books, but I'm also somewhat less eager to read them.