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Reader reviewed by The Library Lurker

Well, this book was...different than I though it would be. With a title
that has the word Titanic in it, I was thinking that they would
actually be on the Titanic for most of it. Instead they're only
actually on it at the very end, the last 50 pages or so. Not to say that
the Titanic wasn't central to the story, because it was.



Instead of an epic drama set on the Titanic *cough*movie*cough*, I
got an interesting novel about Spiritualism in the early twentieth
century, Harry Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Nikola Tesla. Oh,
and of course, the five Taylor sisters. Jane, the second oldest, is our
narrator. She tells about her life, beginning when she was four and was
caught in an earthquake unintentionally caused by Tesla's invention. He
makes quite and impression on her and throughout her life she collects
newspaper articles about him.



Oh, and I forgot to mention that her life is living in Spirit Dale, a
psychic community, with her maybe psychic mother who makes a living by
telling people's fortunes, her older beautiful sister Mimi who she's
always in the shadow of, her twin sisters Amelie and Emma who might
actually be psychic, and her youngest sister Blythe. Needless to say,
she wants out. So when she has an opportunity to enter a journalism
contest that might land her in New York, she's all for it and knows
exactly who her article is going to be about: Tesla.



It all really starts when she goes to interview him, and from then on
you meet familiar historical figures and witness events you'd only read
about. It's quite and adventure. A well written adventure to boot. It's
told as a kind of flashback, which makes it interesting and different.
Jane is very likeable as well, the way that she's very down to earth. I
enjoyed this book much more than I thought I would and I'm glad that I
picked it up.