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asinglebird's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Abortion, Blood, and Cursing
andloveistoolong's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Murder, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual content, Alcohol, Blood, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Sexual violence, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: War, Child death, Pregnancy, Excrement, Infidelity, and Terminal illness
bebidocrimes's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
With such an incredible set up for time travelling historians, you'd think they would think a bit further out than Europe/Mediterranean. Sure, a good chunk was in dinosaur times, but even history mentioned in passing was limited. Despite that, this was a really fun read! Super fast, fun characters, and some surprisingly realistic heavy moments. Gotta say, I liked the romance because it made sense that those characters were good for one another, BUT (present) time passed so quickly it felt super rushed. Like, yeah they'd get there eventually, but it feels a bit soon, what do you mean it's been 5 years? I'd kill for more focus on the Wardrobe department and the Research & Development team (those mad scientists are gay, change my mind). I couldn't stand that all the women had negative attributes to them (she's a bitch, she's not friendly, she's stuck up), and most of them got better developed throughout, but would it kill the author to give Max some female friends? Or at least give her and Kal more on screen friendship development. Overall, ups and downs for this whole book, but it was exciting and I own the next 3 so I'm sticking around.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death, Violence, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Medical content
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, and Miscarriage
drakonreads's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
I liked the style of writing, it was whimsical and funny at times but there is a lot of gruesome moments (but you tend to get that will battles). It was relatively fast paced.
Still on the other hand, there were minor things that really annoyed me:
1) "History" seemed to be discussed like an entity for some reason like a few times. It's not. It's the best reconstruction of the past we got but it's not "fate" or something, it's just the culmination of humankind's goals waring with each other. Also "prehistory" is it's own thing (stuff before the pre-invention of writing). Eventually she did use the phrase "time continuum" (p. 272) but like the 3 (?) times she addressed "History" as some kind of entity grated on me. It may be because the Kleio thing that might be expanded in later books but still what average historian talks about history that way?
2) sources. It gets better, but initial stuff just wouldn't fly with historians. Where you getting you're sources? Who would pay for that? They might as well believe they made it up on the spot or paid a fiction writer. It does get elaborated later on but for the majority of the book I didn't really see how their work was applicable since it's basically unusable to historians because who is going to buy the 'time traveler' as a valid way that the information was acquired? Beyond the person who hires them, the information is useless. At best they could try using it for further experimental archeology but otherwise no historian would be able to cite this stuff.
Beyond that the book was great. I liked it. Definitely a lot of adventures, a little something for everyone.
Still on the other hand, there were minor things that really annoyed me:
1) "History" seemed to be discussed like an entity for some reason like a few times. It's not. It's the best reconstruction of the past we got but it's not "fate" or something, it's just the culmination of humankind's goals waring with each other. Also "prehistory" is it's own thing (stuff before the pre-invention of writing). Eventually she did use the phrase "time continuum" (p. 272) but like the 3 (?) times she addressed "History" as some kind of entity grated on me. It may be because
2) sources. It gets better, but initial stuff just wouldn't fly with historians. Where you getting you're sources? Who would pay for that? They might as well believe they made it up on the spot or paid a fiction writer. It does get elaborated later on but for the majority of the book I didn't really see how their work was applicable since it's basically unusable to historians because who is going to buy the 'time traveler' as a valid way that the information was acquired? Beyond the person who hires them, the information is useless. At best they could try using it for further experimental archeology but otherwise no historian would be able to cite this stuff.
Beyond that the book was great. I liked it. Definitely a lot of adventures, a little something for everyone.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence, Sexual assault, Cursing, and Miscarriage
Minor: Animal cruelty and Vomit
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