This book is all over the place!
But that’s what made it a lot of fun.
The book calls itself an “epic” in the synopsis, and I can’t disagree.
I liked how scattered it felt.
We follow so many people, in so many places, through 100 years. It felt like we were apart of everything.
Time certainly not linear in this line. “Time is imposed”.
There are some characters I wish we would have seen more from. Sometimes it moves too quickly from place to place.
Thankfully, my two favorite characters (Johannes and Elizabeth) were shown a lot.
This is a tragic tale, so not for everyone, but I enjoyed my read.

Fortune by Lenny Batulin is a fabulous novel for anyone interested in historical fiction. The setting is in the time of Napolean when he beat Prussia. It jumps between multiple characters telling the story from their perspective. All of these characters are connected from the beginning of the novel in some way. They build relationships and come to know each other later in the novel. It goes through romantic relationships and even some horrific things the slaves were subjected to during this time.