Wow... You can judge a book by its cover, I was mesmerized by this one every page until the end... ( )

Garbage.

The narrator is four years old for 42 pages and uses the words "violently, convulsing, frigidity, overwhelming, impulse, beseeched, reverie, reticence, condescension". She meets the great Nikola Tesla and listens to her mother have an entire conversation with him. The four year old manages to follow the whole thing and retain words like "electromechanical oscillator". She isn't an unacknowledged genius, here. Weyn doesn't seem to be self-aware of what she's doing. This continues.

The novel is filled with cameos of celebrities from the time period. There's even a helpful author's note at the end to explain who they all are. It gets to a point where I put the book down and asked, outloud, "What am I reading?!". In chapter 10 Jane is standing in the penthouse of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel comparing Tesla to Einstein with Tesla's assistant while Guggenheim uses the phone in another room and his girlfriend dresses up Jane's sister in the next. None of this takes place on the Titanic.

Character information is written like facts ripped from a biography.
"I wish Jack wouldn't insist on being called Colonel Astor," Mr. Guggenheim cried. "It's so ridiculous. He donated his yacht and bought himself a brigade of volunteers just so he could have that ludicrous title! It's absurd."
"Colonel Astor served his country with distinction during the Spanish-American War," Mr. Boldt insisted loyally.
It's cringeworthy.

Suzanne Weyn has written over 180 novels. She has had the chance to hone her craft. Clearly, neither she nor the people who publish her work give a s###. ( )

A lot of people say this book isn't any good because the centre plot point, the Titanic, doesn't appear til near the end. Which is fine, that's true, it doesn't. But if you treat it as a story that simply ends on the Titanic, it's a fine book. This is the book that made me interested in Tesla, and despite 75% of the characters being entirely fictional, I thoroughly enjoyed this new twist to the Titanic story that has been repeated over and over again. It made it unique! ( )

This was an excellent book. It gives you a different look into the Titanic tragedy and the possible events that led up to it. The story is fictional, but many of the characters were once real people. ( )

At first the book was slow, but it picked up and I couldn't put it down. I really enjoyed this book. I love the historical feel to it. The only thing that I want to know is if Jane and Thad get married? Love the characters!!!! ( )