This alternate history is the January 2011 selection for the Prince William Public Library's Science Fiction Book Group. It moves at the pace of most YA books. The story is interesting and and easy read, but I didn't really feel "engrossed" by it. The relationships between the characters took predictable turns, and the story (part of a trilogy?) ended with exactly the cliffhangers that I expected. While the ideas of the "evolutionary science" pitted against the "mechanical science" was intriguing, the speed of development in both areas caused a loss of credibility for me, given the WWI setting of the novel.
This works as a YA book, but I don't think it makes it outside the YA category.
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