Books like The Watch

Peter Kropotkin, the anarchist prince, a contemporary of Emma Goldman, is rescued from his deathbed by a man from the future who sends him to Richmond Virginia in 1999 to live his life again (he is only in his 30's when he is reborn). Revolution ensues.The book started off really well. I enjoyed Peter's character and his personal and political acclimation to his future. And then about halfway through it gets really bad. The characters fall apart (even Peter) and become flat and annoying. And then there's this whole revolutionary moment that develops which is poorly developed and not at all credible. The "organizing" that goes on is basically Peter talking to people randomly about their lives and the preposterousness of capitalism. The struggle is supposedly about race and the legacy of slavery but the most complex black character we are given, a man who escaped slavery and is befriended by Peter, is poorly created and not well fleshed out. So by the end, I was so irritated, I just couldn't read the last 20 pages.