I picked this up on the strength of East of West and the promising idea of messing around with well known scientists in an alternate history, but I really struggled to get into it. I really love the clean design of the covers but find the messy, scratchy art inside ugly and looking at it makes me feel really uncomfortable. Whilst it was a difficult slog at first, by the time I'd got to the end of the first volume it had picked up a bit and triggered enough interest that I will try to read more of it, eventually.