1636: The Kremlin Games

This is the book that brings me back into the fold on the Grantville series. I liked it so much more than any of the last 3 that I read, and I think most of the credit has to go to Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett. I don't know to what extent Eric Flint was involved in the writing of this story aside from creating the whole universe to begin with, but a lot of the melodramatic flair that he has in any of the mainline novels was missing; happily missing for my part. This was just a great story of another uptimer going to somewhere that the mainline stories haven't gone and helping to pull the downtimers into the future. I was hooked immediately, so much so that I bought the book and returned my library copy, and bought 1635 The Papal Stakes at the same time. I'd been a little down on the series for a while, but I think I fell back in love.