Book Review: Mathematicians figure out the formula for time travel? That caught my interest. As did the cropped painting of a “Seated Woman with Bent Knees” (1917) by Egon Schiele. A smart idea to use an iconic artist on the cover – it drew me in. And although he wasn’t part of the story, he was chosen, I suspect, because he was Austrian and lived in Vienna – where half of the novel takes place. But another reason I found out was that the author has a personal connection to Schiele’s work. The story is about a young woman named Hase (which coincidentally means ‘Hare’ in German – I swear I didn’t know that when I chose the second book to write about), who is searching for her missing father. This leads her on a sort of “hero’s journey,” or better put, finding a Pandora’s “music” box about her origins. The book seesaws back and forth between 21^st-century San Francisco and 20^th-century Vienna just as Hitler’s egregors were blossoming. I enjoyed the journey the book took me on. If I have any complaint, it is that the book ended in the middle. I found myself creating more of the story after I closed its covers. I could easily see "Expert of Subtle Revisions" as a series on Netflix.

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