I have mixed feelings about this book.

 Vitruvian Mask startsstrongly, readers are presented with an interesting world where the timeline isset in the past, yet we learn about modern technology exceeding current time.We follow the journey of a heavily pregnant scientist, Adelaide Coumain, in atrying time when science has been outlawed, and she has to endure theman-dominated world without certainty in the future for her and her baby.

 We learn about thefather of the baby, snippets ...