this was a bit of a mess -and only a bit of one because it’s a 100 pages and so it can’t be a huge mess simply because there aren’t enough pages for that. 


the author tried. 
i guess. 
it has a lot of historical facts and situations, details of people that show that the author clearly worked to learn about the characters put into the book. 

so that’s the positive, besides the already mentioned shortness of the story. 


the rest of this? 
it doesn’t work. 

the idea was there and maybe it could have worked? but as it was and as it is written, it didn’t make sense. 

i think the only way this story makes sense is inside the authors head, where more details and informations about everything that is happened beside what’s written in this story are. 

but as the story is? 

there is no explanation as to why it’s even a story to begin with since non of the characters seem to really care or have a real interest in the climate change -and why would they being dead and from very different times?
maybe i could have believed the combination of characters IF it would have been better explained and/or explored why specifically Lincoln and Rachmaninoff had to do this. 
what exactly qualified those two to inspire making big changes in humanity? 
no idea! the story never explained it! 

and just if you want to tell a story about that, shouldn’t that at least be part of it than?! 


also the characters…. i said the author clearly did the research. and while that is true, it also shows in this story that the author added a lot of wishful thinking/dreaming and didn’t try very hard to write an authentic russian. 
this story glossed over a lot of issues that would have been a factor with those characters connecting and coming together and made those people out to be so easy going and understand and frankly way to helpful and pleasing.


i wish i could say the ending made it worth it in the end… but it didn’t. 

the ending made me question what the heck i just read this entire thing for to get that kind of ending. 


so i sadly can not say i recommend this.

frankly i can not understand how this story even made it so far to go out to reviewers. who read this and thought it was a fantastic idea and needed to published? did they ever read anything else before? 
that might sound mean but for this story to be good or at least a nice read this entire thing needs to either be re-written and worked over or heavily edited. 



thanks to NetGalley for provoking me with a free e-copy in exchange for an honest review.