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Dust In The Wind: Dust Book 1
The Levin family had made the choice to move, they just didn't realize exactly how far they would be going. Hauling their worldly possessions across the country in 2020 with all of the covid restrictions was an adventure, but it was only the beginning. Caught in a massive dust storm in the Oklahoma panhandle, they pull over to let the storm pass. Once it cleared however, they find that the whole world has changed. The year is 1933, and America is a much different country. Caught in the grips of the ecological disaster of the American Dust Bowl, and the Great Depression would be enough of a challenge for most modern families, but for the Jewish Levin family it is the realization that Adolf Hitler is alive and running one of the great powers of Europe that is of the most concern to them.
To make things worse, history isn't unfolding exactly as they recall. Things are similar enough, but the details are different. Even if they were willing to sit back and let it play out, abandoning all of humanity to the horrors of the Second World War, to say nothing of the nightmare waiting for European Jewry, the changes mean that they have no guarantee that the result of the war will be the same. What can one family do when caught in the tides of history?
To make things worse, history isn't unfolding exactly as they recall. Things are similar enough, but the details are different. Even if they were willing to sit back and let it play out, abandoning all of humanity to the horrors of the Second World War, to say nothing of the nightmare waiting for European Jewry, the changes mean that they have no guarantee that the result of the war will be the same. What can one family do when caught in the tides of history?
189 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 1, 2025
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January 5, 2025
Good Start
Judging from my reading of some of the author’s other series, I think that this is a good start to a new one. It’s a rather different take on a time-slip novel, occurring in the 1930’s instead of back in medieval times. I am looking forward to seeing how the author handles the coming of WW2, as well as the inter relationships of the main characters and the locals, as well as the Native Americans. If I had to make a complaint, it would be to do with the now overused anti marriage rhetoric that the author has used before.
Judging from my reading of some of the author’s other series, I think that this is a good start to a new one. It’s a rather different take on a time-slip novel, occurring in the 1930’s instead of back in medieval times. I am looking forward to seeing how the author handles the coming of WW2, as well as the inter relationships of the main characters and the locals, as well as the Native Americans. If I had to make a complaint, it would be to do with the now overused anti marriage rhetoric that the author has used before.
February 24, 2025
Poor Alternate History
Not an awful book but close. The author was writing as a niche libertarian Jewish time traveler transported back to Oklahoma during the dust bowl. He was knowledgeable about Judaism. He knew far less about the world of 1930. Politically he beat the guns, gold and libertarian shtick to death. Not with humor like the libertarian "probability brooch' but with sledge harps idea and ridiculous critiques of marriage, government and Roosevelt.
Not an awful book but close. The author was writing as a niche libertarian Jewish time traveler transported back to Oklahoma during the dust bowl. He was knowledgeable about Judaism. He knew far less about the world of 1930. Politically he beat the guns, gold and libertarian shtick to death. Not with humor like the libertarian "probability brooch' but with sledge harps idea and ridiculous critiques of marriage, government and Roosevelt.
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