Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Mar 14, 2017 Rebecca rated it really liked it

Shelves: time-travel, science-fiction, 2017-popsugar-challenge, 2017-audiobook-challenge, 2017-full-house-challenge, 2017-around-the-year-challenge, 2017-monthly-motif-challenge

Confession: My two favorite themes in literature are time travel and alternative histories. Somehow, this book, Doomsday Book, has completely escaped my notice until now, despite the fact that it won the Best Novel Hugo Award back in 1993. The story is set in 2054 in Oxford, England. Time travel has been invented, but up until now, people were not allowed to go back to the 14th century because it was considered too dangerous for two reasons. First, it was the era of the Hundred Years' War, and s ...more

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Nov 12, 2024 Keli rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: defo-not-my-cup-o-tea, 1-5-rounded-down, time-travel, wheel-9

I'm going to summarise this for you and save you 20 hours of your life that you will never get back if you choose to read it.

Mr Dunworthy: Kivrin, don't go back to the dark ages. It's all kinds of scary and dangerous.

Kivrin: I'm completely and totally prepared to go the period we know the least about. Don't worry, I have it all under control.

Mr Dunworthy: Kivrin, don't go. You'll be raped, burnt at the stake, forced to marry a peasant. Probably in that order.

Kivrin: It’s fine. I'm off.

Kivrin I ...more

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Feb 22, 2015 Jess Penhallow rated it liked it

Shelves: uk, sci-fi, 14th-century

Although I really like the concept of time travelling historians and there was some wonderful characterisation in this book it really needed better editing. It was far too long and dragged in numerous places. There were also a lot of typos and small mistakes that took me out of the action. Its a shame because I enjoyed this story and it deserved more care. As this is the first full novel by this author I hope she picked up a good editor for her later books which I still intend to read.

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