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Although the story flips between times, settings, and point-of-view characters, it is easy to follow and engaging in a ‘what happens next?’ kind of way (although ‘next’ is a very conditional thing when it comes to time travel). The main characters aren’t especially admirable or even likeable. For the most part, they come off as either stupid or petty. Even da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin (in England at the time) are portrayed as less than the giants of history we now imagine them to have been. What makes readers care about what happens to these characters is that the fate of the world is disturbingly in their hands.
The story is a creative mix of science fiction, steampunk, alternate history, and comic adventure. The prose style and dialogue are most suited to that last of these and sets the tone of the story. The copy editing is good, with only a few apparent minor errors. The only real detractor worthy of mention is the abrupt ending. The Last of the Time Police is part one. Part two is Return of the Time Police. Both are relatively short and could have been published together as one novel.
Full disclosure: I obtained a promotional digital edition of this book through Awesome Indies for review.
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