By Jodi Taylor
Wahoo! What a ride. She crammed more stuff into this one short adventure than a normal author crams into a trilogy. In this, the first of a series, the historian takes a job at St. Mary's and discovers that time travel is not only possible but very very probable...and off she goes. One mission after another to verify missing facts in the historical record. The places and times seem to be cherry-picked to leave the best unanswered questions of history for future books in the series, but then you have to remember they're making a business of it. You go where you're paid to go--and if you happen to have time to do a little research while you're at it, all the better.
The action is fierce throughout and pretty much everyone seems to die at least once. Either that or I got confused. Several times she was killing off so many characters that I began to wonder who would be left to continue the series. But then a dinosaur jumped out, or a man with a laser gun, or something exploded, and one she goes!
If you're listening to an audiobook of this you might want to be careful about leaving the volume turned up in the car when you stop for gas. There are a couple of intense sex scenes. But short and not at all embarrassing unless you happen to have kids in the car.
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