Reviews for Elleander Morning
Review - Elleander Morning
Why I read the book: I found it on a good time-travel books list.
What the book was about: Elleander Morning is on her death bed looking back at her life. She remembers her husband, Bertie who died in a car accident in 1913 and her son, Henry, who died on D-Day. At the last minutes, she wills herself to go back and change things. She ends up in her old body in 1910, becomes a prostitute and seduces Bertie so she can have Henry. But she refuses to marry him because she doesn’t want to cause him pain when she does the other thing she has to do — travel to Vienna and murder an obscure painter named Adolf Hitler. She’s arrested and put to death, but the entire world has changed — no WWII and so forth.
Her granddaughter, Lesley inherits a book from her father (Henry). It’s the Time-Life History of WWII, a war that never happened. Experts study the book and can’t explain it. It’s too well done and involved to be a hoax. They decide to print it, which offends Germany. German General von Seydlitz decides to follow the course of the book and take over Europe. His nephew, Paul Bauer, who happens to be Lesley’s fiance, decides to stop him by planting a bomb in a suitcase. He’s found out, but Lesley arrives just at that moment to stop von Seydlitz from killing Paul. The bomb goes off and von Seydlitz and his cronies die. Lesley marries Paul.
What I liked about the book: It had an interesting concept — about how the world would be different if Hitler had been killed in 1913.
What I didn’t like about the book: It was crude. There were a lot of scenes in a whorehouse, which were totally unnecessary. The writing was fair. In the end, it was just silly.
Recommendation: If you’re alone in a house for a month and this is the only book available, perhaps you can browse it, but other than that, I don’t recommend it.
What the book was about: Elleander Morning is on her death bed looking back at her life. She remembers her husband, Bertie who died in a car accident in 1913 and her son, Henry, who died on D-Day. At the last minutes, she wills herself to go back and change things. She ends up in her old body in 1910, becomes a prostitute and seduces Bertie so she can have Henry. But she refuses to marry him because she doesn’t want to cause him pain when she does the other thing she has to do — travel to Vienna and murder an obscure painter named Adolf Hitler. She’s arrested and put to death, but the entire world has changed — no WWII and so forth.
Her granddaughter, Lesley inherits a book from her father (Henry). It’s the Time-Life History of WWII, a war that never happened. Experts study the book and can’t explain it. It’s too well done and involved to be a hoax. They decide to print it, which offends Germany. German General von Seydlitz decides to follow the course of the book and take over Europe. His nephew, Paul Bauer, who happens to be Lesley’s fiance, decides to stop him by planting a bomb in a suitcase. He’s found out, but Lesley arrives just at that moment to stop von Seydlitz from killing Paul. The bomb goes off and von Seydlitz and his cronies die. Lesley marries Paul.
What I liked about the book: It had an interesting concept — about how the world would be different if Hitler had been killed in 1913.
What I didn’t like about the book: It was crude. There were a lot of scenes in a whorehouse, which were totally unnecessary. The writing was fair. In the end, it was just silly.
Recommendation: If you’re alone in a house for a month and this is the only book available, perhaps you can browse it, but other than that, I don’t recommend it.
Reviewed by Roger on 2008-08-20 14:30:03