The ‘war’ that develops in Book 2 of ‘The War that Came Early’ series begins with things bogged down; reminiscent in tone and tenor as the ‘Great War’ series. Fortunately, while the plot momentum is not very fast-paced, Turtledove does manage to flesh out his characters and the reader is likely to become as interested in them as the events into which they are woven. More character driven, if at times tortuously slow in terms of storyline development, I did end up wanting to wonder where things were going…And that's a positive thing.