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barnesm31's review
4.0
Two of the strangest pair of adventurers Cady McCall, a foul-mouthed geek grrl of the twenty-first century and Deputy US Marshal John Titanic Smith from the nineteenth are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, when they begin to travel using a powerful time piece collected by Smith in the previous book 'A girl in Time'. Now Cady and Smith tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time.
Even more action, which drops our readers into the middle of the action from the first paragraph. It's not only a wild ride but educational, you'll discover that during the Salem witch hunts folk were crushed and hanged, not burned. With a visit to Nazi Germany where the intrepid Smith avoids the greatest temptation a time travel can suffer and completely fails to try and kill Hitler, though he does collect a mysterious professor then our duo struggle with pirates and ner do wells in a pre-revolutionary Boston.
Can they avoid the diabolical threat posed by the mysterious time agents, will Cady ever get the smell of maggoty meat out of her hair, how long will we have to wait for the third book in the series.
Even more action, which drops our readers into the middle of the action from the first paragraph. It's not only a wild ride but educational, you'll discover that during the Salem witch hunts folk were crushed and hanged, not burned. With a visit to Nazi Germany where the intrepid Smith avoids the greatest temptation a time travel can suffer and completely fails to try and kill Hitler, though he does collect a mysterious professor then our duo struggle with pirates and ner do wells in a pre-revolutionary Boston.
Can they avoid the diabolical threat posed by the mysterious time agents, will Cady ever get the smell of maggoty meat out of her hair, how long will we have to wait for the third book in the series.
doddyaboutbooks's review
4.0
This was tons of fun with some kick-arse characters and truly inventive swearing. :)
gilmae's review
3.0
I enjoyed this. Don't overthink it though. As with everything he does, this is Birmingham doing what he does - a slightly gonzo syfy blast. He is - and I think I have repeated his joke before - not about the litz.
Come to think of it, this would really fit well on SyFy Channel. Probably not their A Show like The Expanse and The Magicians. No, it would find itself a good fit with the shows that fill out the schedule; like Dark Matter.
Except I think it'd lose that gonzo charm that Birmingham has as it was translated.
Come to think of it, this would really fit well on SyFy Channel. Probably not their A Show like The Expanse and The Magicians. No, it would find itself a good fit with the shows that fill out the schedule; like Dark Matter.
Except I think it'd lose that gonzo charm that Birmingham has as it was translated.
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