It's a magical world

I've seen some lukewarm reviews of this book and was kind of waiting (given its length!) for someone with a sense of the points-of-change historical basis (bases?) to post about it before deciding whether to put it onto the list. You are it. :) Thank you muchly. I enjoyed Spirit Gate a couple of years ago, but it's the only Elliott book I've read so far (picked up with ± the sense you mentioned in your Inda review), and thus I had little benchmark.