I had heard all kinds of great things about this book. I am not jewish but have been fascinated by jews and their traditions for many years and am also a fan of alternate universes. This book bothered me - firstly, everyone calls each other "yid". I don't know how jews feel about this but it was disconcerting. Also, it would have been helpful to have a glossary in the back for the "jewish" words. Finally, I found this book hard to follow and basically gave up 3/4 of the way through when I really didn't care any more "who did it"