The Army of the Republic by, Stuart Archer Cohen

The first sentence was delicious and the first page intriguing- then the book starts to fall flat on its face. The momentum picks up again later, however, the book clearly needs another draft or two. Dialogue drives the story in a book that spends more time devoted to moving through events rather than making the tale become real. The story had great potential but Cohen just doesn't pull it off. Instead we are left with a book full of conspiracy but fails to make the conspiracy tangible. It reads like a maniac who keeps repeating the same mantra. I wanted to like the book but Cohen fails in a genre where other writers have succeeded.

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