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What to make of this debut novel? The concept of the plot was interesting, a young woman is tasked with acclimating a naval officer from the Victorian era as his guide from the Ministry of Time in the UK. There is no world building. The book begins with the Ministry having discovered a time travel portal and extracted several persons from different British historical eras who would otherwise have died in their timeline at the point of extraction. At first, we don't know what the Ministry hopes t
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*DNF at 35%, but I did skim through to the ending*
I think this book does a lot of things right - the humor was very witty and the concept is intriguing. This is not the book to read if you need the time travel explained and the book is very up-front about that.
I had two problems that caused me to DNF. The first was that I couldn't connect to the main character at all, and the humorous dialogue didn't help in that way. There's a way to have a book be humorous but have the characters still have s ...more
I think this book does a lot of things right - the humor was very witty and the concept is intriguing. This is not the book to read if you need the time travel explained and the book is very up-front about that.
I had two problems that caused me to DNF. The first was that I couldn't connect to the main character at all, and the humorous dialogue didn't help in that way. There's a way to have a book be humorous but have the characters still have s ...more
Audio book version was really good.
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