The authors’ intended fusion of civic and Mahomic narratives doesn’t quite come off. For one thing, they have chosen a cumbersome strategy of alternating between chapters devoted to Mahomes’s development and those devoted to the city’s history ... Dent and Dodd are sweetly guileless writers, at times striking a gee-willikers tone more suited to a Y.A. audience ... This book, suitably, stumbles to achieve its noble intentions, not wholly succeeding but flashing promise.
