A review by verydazedragon
Gideon the Cutpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

For whatever reason, I had a really hard time getting into this book. They did handle time travel differently than any other time travel book I have read. For one thing, why did they keep telling people they were time travelers? Isn’t that the first rule of time? That no one can know? The villains were all cartoonishly bad, that’s another complaint I have. I also thought it was a stretch for Kate to call Peter dumb for not knowing things like who the first man right a dictionary was, or the identity of Erasmus Darwin. And the way they traveled back in time was really iffy and glossed over.