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tonyriver's review against another edition
4.0
Great sequel - now have to wait or a year to finish! Well written and better than first in series ( which was good)
urlphantomhive's review
3.0
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I read time travel, so count me in. There's an introduction in the book about the special setting where, from our POV, people from one historical setting visit another one. Besides it is set in an alternative steampunk London where monsters and the machines that were meant to keep them in check roam around.
This is a good example of how thing gradually became worse, with the solution being even worse than the problem and this for several problems. Luckily there is a bunch of time traveling pocket watches available and some young people who are willing to use it to rid the world once and for all of these problems. Our main characters are from Georgian England and it is clear that HG Wells and the like have not yet been around, because of course they should have realized right from the start that History doesn't want to be changed and that these things NEVER end well.
The story was a bit slower than I expected. While they do jump around in time quite some, I was perhaps still used to the mayhem that is St Mary's in that other Time Travel series that I'm reading. I'm however, not entirely on board with the rules of the time travel in this one, especially since they glance over (or at least give a unsatisfactory answer) to two of the most important paradoxes of time travel. I hope this will be resolved a bit better in the next book, which I hope to read soon.
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
I read time travel, so count me in. There's an introduction in the book about the special setting where, from our POV, people from one historical setting visit another one. Besides it is set in an alternative steampunk London where monsters and the machines that were meant to keep them in check roam around.
This is a good example of how thing gradually became worse, with the solution being even worse than the problem and this for several problems. Luckily there is a bunch of time traveling pocket watches available and some young people who are willing to use it to rid the world once and for all of these problems. Our main characters are from Georgian England and it is clear that HG Wells and the like have not yet been around, because of course they should have realized right from the start that History doesn't want to be changed and that these things NEVER end well.
The story was a bit slower than I expected. While they do jump around in time quite some, I was perhaps still used to the mayhem that is St Mary's in that other Time Travel series that I'm reading. I'm however, not entirely on board with the rules of the time travel in this one, especially since they glance over (or at least give a unsatisfactory answer) to two of the most important paradoxes of time travel. I hope this will be resolved a bit better in the next book, which I hope to read soon.
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
amylee218's review
4.0
Wow. I honestly did not think that I was really going to like, "A Steampunk, Time-Travel Adventure". I tend to be picky about any sci-fi books I read. However, this one surprised me. I loved that Elizabeth and William were from Regency England, and carried those mores and values with them into Victorian England. Too often, characters who time travel are thrust into different eras and they are either oblivious to all the differences, totally mission-focused (which is not realistic to me at all) or they are so focused on every little difference that it gets annoying. Heather Albano has created characters with just the right balance. The time that they come from obviously influences them, but in a way that makes sense. The story is a good blend of interpersonal, relationship stuff and history-changing, monster-fighting, action stuff. I loved all of the literary allusions, and the historical parts seemed well-researched. The only negative is that I want to read more, and I will have wait until I order the next two books.
krissyyne's review
2.0
"As recent days had been rather full of conflict with her mother over her chosen pastimes and as there was no ball conveniently available, Elizabeth had elected to spend this particular morning in the garden and thereby avoid a quarrel. When Bronson brought her the parcel, she was pruning roses and only a little bored by the fine June day."
I didn't like this anywhere near as much as I thought I would.
For one, the time-traveling. It didn't make sense. Logically, you would be able to travel to the same point in time more than once. And the same month or "junction". It didn't completely add up to me.
Also, the ending. I didn't see what purpose it served, besides a medial cliff-hanger. Obviously, something wasn't going to go exactly how Elizabeth, Maxwell, and William needed it to go. It was just obvious to me, and kind of a copped-out, easy-to-build-off-of ending.
Don't think I'll continue reading the series, although the idea was interesting.
I didn't like this anywhere near as much as I thought I would.
For one, the time-traveling. It didn't make sense. Logically, you would be able to travel to the same point in time more than once. And the same month or "junction". It didn't completely add up to me.
Also, the ending. I didn't see what purpose it served, besides a medial cliff-hanger. Obviously, something wasn't going to go exactly how Elizabeth, Maxwell, and William needed it to go. It was just obvious to me, and kind of a copped-out, easy-to-build-off-of ending.
Don't think I'll continue reading the series, although the idea was interesting.
brookepalmer796's review
3.0
Pretty good. Probably more like 2.5 stars. Will try the rest of the series.
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