49%
My excuse is that I wanted something easy to read while I had the flu and this had a nice cover. Of course, I should know that the cover is not the way to judge a book - in this case, I judge it - yet again! - on the Edwardian characters speaking like modern Americans. Nobody would have used that vocabulary, and clearly the author knows nothing about how Cambridge colleges work. Yes, it's fantasy, but jarring inaccuracies ruin the immersion. Again, I ask, why didn't an editor pick up on any of this? So that irritated me even without the very familiar storyline and unsympathetic characters behaving remarkably irrationally for scientists.
