Publishers Weekly
Hugo- and Nebula-winner Card (Speaker for the Dead) gives a familiar childish fear a science fiction spin in this youthful tale of a monster in the closet. The monster here is a wormhole that serves as a conduit to an alien world. Four years earlier, young Jared claimed he saw his mother get snatched away by it when she stepped into his bedroom closet. When older brother Todd sees proof that Jared wasn't just fantasizing, Jared and his family have to find a way for Todd to travel to the menacing other world and bring his mom back. Card works both pathos and humor into this tale of a family pulling together to rescue one of their own, producing a story more pleasing than its slight plot might suggest. (Aug.)
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Howard Jones
An engrossing, well-written account of Thomas Haines Dudley’s efforts as Union consul in Liverpool to block the Confederacy’s attempt to build a navy in British shipyards. Had Dudley failed, the Confederacy might have won diplomatic recognition and changed the outcome of the war. Milton’s finely crafted work is a story of intrigue and deception that adds another vital element to the international dimensions of the American Civil War.” –Howard Jones, author of Union in Peril: The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War and New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War.
Brian Jenkins
[This is] a convincing and splendidly succinct account of Dudley’s considerable and even vital contribution to the Union’s triumph.” –Brian Jenkins, author of Britain and the War for the Union, Volumes 1 and 2.
