This e-book I bought on Amazon presents an alternative history of the Pacific war. Max Lamirande skillfully alters some key facts in the real timeline and explores the outcomes of those changes.

At the outset I need to say that I love alternative history, especially military history, but it needs to be done right.

Lamirande uses simple descriptions of different events, along with stories, diaries, and quotes, to tell an engaging tale, but a number of issues detracted from this.

Lamirande’s writing suffers from a notable lack of detail that left me wanting more. Additionally, his use of individual characters to advance the story, which was a great idea, feels underdeveloped and weak, resulting in a lack of emotional connection to the narrative and its unfolding events. This is exacerbated by his lack of knowledge and/or research on much of the military equipment on which he makes some glaring errors. This is just plain sloppy penmanship. The sloppiness continues with the book riddled with grammatical and spelling errors throughout. For me all of this took away from my reading enjoyment.

I have the second book in the series to read. If it’s like the first, I probably won’t buy the third.

Will need to improve.