Leigh Kimmel’s Reviews > Caller of Lightning > Status Update

Sparring with the Penn family, hints that His Majesty's Government is taking an interest in the matter. Ben is initiated into the Society of Numbers -- and the discovery of who is Lord One. A spectacular confrontation, a battle, and a hint that the enemy is much more than he seems.

Franklin in London, in the boardinghouse where his enemy, now condemn.ed as a traitor. Meeting bright young Polly, wanting to introduce her to his own daughter Sally. Looks like things will get interesting.

The Liberty Bell and Stonehenge, all strangely touched with the magic of which Ben Franklin now partakes. And all the time he is being watched.

A very unpleasant confrontation that puts me in mind of the one with Mr. Bracewell in Newton's Cannon, the first in another "magic in early America" series. Another unpleasant confrontation, this time between a boardinghouse owner and the king's Guard.

More hints that this world does not work like the one we know, and hints of trouble backstairs in the Franklin household.

The famous kite experiment -- except then it turns strange. A hint that this is not our familiar scientific universe, but one in which magic is very real.