The phrase over-promised and under-delivered comes roaring out of this book. The premise takes it cue from a never enacted US government program to import hippos into the southern US as a meat source to replace beef. And goes from there. There’s a kind of breathless introduction about how excited the author was about finding this all out and how this book explores that idea with a kind of steampunk-ish/alternative history take on things. And then taking those conceit and creating a kind of heist […]