A review by aninna
Another Shore by Nancy Bond

4.0

Finally an enjoyable time travel read, with a level headed heroine, who understood that she didn't belong in that time and always yearned to go home. My biggest problem with time travel books, where a woman time travels to the past, is her NOT WANTING TO LEAVE. This annoys me to nth degree. They begin sprouting nonsense like ''oh it's just so peaceful and calm here, no loud cars and traffic, people are so nice, mmh fresh air no modern world pollution uwu ~'' Seems like the authors have the 'good ye old days' syndrome and don't understand just how shit life was back then. This book however illustrates this very well. I liked just how nearly everyone was so rude and abrasive and that's understandable, considering their situation. I also liked how Lyn/Elizabeth wasn't an important figure in anyone's life and how almost no one paid attention to her and how the protagonist herself acknowledged this. Even Donald, who claimed that he wouldn't have survived this long without her, didn't really care for Lyn herself, because he was neck deep in his own misery. Everyone had their own problems and both that, and their life were of equal importance. Lyn wasn't a black hole of a protagonist, who just sucked all the attention to herself. I don't know if I'll ever find a book like this again.