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The Kingdom of Ohio

Description

An incredibly original, intelligent novel-a love story set against New York City at the dawn of the mechanical age, featuring Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and J. P. Morgan.

After discovering an old photograph, an elderly antiques dealer living in present-day Los Angeles is forced to revisit the history he has struggled to deny. The photograph depicts a man and a woman. The man is Peter Force, a young frontier adventurer who comes to New York City in 1901 and quickly lands a job digging the first subway tunnels beneath the metropolis. The woman is Cheri- Anne Toledo, a beautiful mathematical prodigy whose memories appear to come from another world. They meet seemingly by chance, and initially Peter dismisses her as crazy. But as they are drawn into a tangle of overlapping intrigues, Peter must reexamine Cheri-Anne's fantastic story. Could it be that she is telling the truth and that she has stumbled onto the most dangerous secret imaginable: the key to traveling through time?

Set against the mazelike streets of New York at the dawn of the mechanical age, Peter and Cheri-Anne find themselves wrestling with the nature of history, technology, and the unfolding of time itself.

Reviews

Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-07-15
Summary: "This was less than I expected"

I was very disappointed with this book, especially since it was on the NPR summer reading list. The cross between philosophy and science fiction was obvious, but i personally don't think they go together. It was poorly written too.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-07-12
Summary: "."

The premise of the book seems to be of interest to most of the other reviewers, but not I. I was hoping that because of (or perhaps despite of) that the writing and characters would make the book appeal to me; it did not.

Not that the book was horrible, but it seemed to be trying way to hard and had little depth. As if Flaming read The Da Vinci Code and The Time Travelers Wife and said to himself "I can do that" with complete disregard to the fact that those two books shouldn't have been written either.

The footnotes were a little much. Don't get me wrong, I love footnotes in nonfiction but it really takes something away from a novel. Do you want to write a story or be pretentious, Flaming? Apparently you can't do both.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-06-21
Summary: "Could have been so much more"

I agree completely with Daniel Edelen's review. I have to ask myself how one can possibly make a book about time travel boring since the topic itself is so interesting. But somehow Flaming manages. There is so much that could have been done in this novel, but I found myself skimming paragraph after paragraph of redundant internal musings. This novel just didn't hold my interest.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-06-13
Summary: "You Know You're in Trouble When ..."

You know you're in trouble when you're 153 pages into a 336 page novel and you're still waiting for assurance that there will be a pay-off for reading the next 183 pages.

I'm not talking about immediate gratification. Books that present a mystery that unfolds slowly, that draws the reader in and creates a burning craving for resolution; books that lay down the small hints and clues at a liesurely pace; books that weave a lengthy and complex situation are rare treasures.

Alas, The Kingdom of Ohio is none of these. It contains interesting trophes, a host of interesting historical tidbits (like JP Morgan's backing of Edison), but it fails to create a coherent environment where the reader is willing to suspend disbelief. And the book's central mystery, well it's just not that compelling.

All we're left with, then, is a patchwork of interesting ideas, quasi-interesting characters and no strong thread to hold it all together.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-06-05
Summary: "Too Slow For My Taste"

`The Kingdom of Ohio' is a time travel book, an alternate history book, but most of all, a love story. Set in 1901 New York City, I thought at first it would be a steampunk novel, since the young protagonist is working on the construction of the new subway tunnels, learning how to repair the machinery. Knowing from the book jacket that Edison and Tesla were part of the story, I thought that there would be marvelous inventions and electricity flying. This was not to be, either.

The story is very, very low key. Peter Force finds a young woman stumbling and starving, and takes her for a drink & a snack. She reveals that she is the Princess of Ohio, and that she has traveled forward in time 6 years and sideways across the country. Peter suspects that Cheri-Anne Toledo is delusional, but he can't resist helping her. Slowly he comes to believe her story- and to understand the danger she- and possibly the world- is in. And they fall in love, a bittersweet `Time Traveler's Wife' kind of love.

All this is good, but the story moved much too slowly for me, at a glacial pace. Tesla and Edison have minor roles- Edison comes off as a buffoon- and the only scientific wonder on display is the time/space machine- in the shape of a wooden door. I'm afraid I prefer my alt-history stories to move along a bit faster.