A review by schneefink
A Choice of Destinies by Melissa Scott

4.0

If I had expected a novel I probably would have been disappointed: especially in the beginning the book was very much focused on what-if plot developments and battle plans and had little focus on characters. I suspect it would have taken me far longer to become interested in Alexander and Hephaestion if I had not read stories about them before. It was the background characters with conflicted loyalties that I found the most interesting, Theagenes and Cassius mostly, and I wish they'd been given more space, though it probably wouldn't have fit in this book's narrative style.
I do like what-if AUs a lot and this book delivered nicely on that. Especially the chapters set in the far future were an unexpected and fun bonus.