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Time travel + Jane Austen Historical Fiction + Romance & Spycraft = This book.

The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn

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SO. I was actually a bit nervous going in to this since most of my friends on Goodreads who’ve read it didn’t like it very much, if at all, but I liked it quite a bit! I acquired it when a friend was moving a while back and basically let me have free reign on her bookshelves (such a good haul), and then ignored it until I pulled it out of my TBR Jar for February. Though I shake my head at the way the time travel works in this book, the actual mechanics of it, the focus is really […]

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3/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:32 |

This review should have been done 3 years ago

Time Salvager by Wesley Chu

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I only half read Time Salvager. I’m really stubborn and I absolutely hate to DNF but this book has been sitting on my coffee table and my Goodreads “Currently Reading” for three years. I wish that were an exaggeration. Even though my copy was signed by the author when I went to a reading when this first came out, it’s time. I should have liked this. The general premise and the opening scenes are really intriguing. Humanity can time travel but it’s really dangerous and eventually leads to the time-traveler deteriorating and dying. Time travel was discovered and regulated by […]

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3/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:12 |

Still marooned in 1815 with murder afoot

A Twist in Time by Julie McElwain

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This is book two in the Kendra Donovan series, where the heroine has travelled back to Regency London through some sort of wormhole (that part really isn’t explained).  I reviewed the first book earlier this year, and found it to be decent enough to give this one a go.  You definitely need to be willing to suspend belief when reading these books, however, because they really are wallpaper historicals.  Kendra is an FBI agent from the 21st century who found herself dropped back in time to 1815.  She was able to help solve a crime in book one, and this […]

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2/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:11 |

Too Much to Say About the Cat

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

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To Say Nothing of the Dog is not for those with short-attention spans. Though it eventually finds its way and becomes an absorbing, rollicking time travel story, the road there is bumpy and, even worse, frustratingly slow and irritating. For about 150 pages, almost a third of the book, Willis putters around with her narrative, allowing characters to waste time on sitcom-level miscommunications and incompetent decision-making. The book makes an impressive recovery, which explains and also justifies the high esteem it is held in among sci-fi fans and those who love time-travel stories. Ned Henry is a historian at a […]

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2/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

“… these are the differences that determine the fate of the universe.”

Last Day on Mars by Kevin Emerson

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In the year 2213, Earth no longer exists. Mysteriously, the sun began expanding in size, approaching supernova phase far far earlier than it should.  Humanity was prepared, having developed the plans and ability to colonize Mars briefly, before regrouping on a distant star with Earth-like qualities. By now, most humans have begun the 150 year journey to this new star, and a select few remain behind on Mars to finish terraforming and collect data to ensure the trip to our new home goes smoothly.  Liam is the son of two of these scientists. He and his friends are among the […]

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1/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

Outlander meets Criminal Minds

A Murder in Time by Julie McElwain

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When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a 19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life—200 years before she was even born. This was certainly not a book to take seriously – think of a wallpaper historical novel with a modern day heroine who just doesn’t fit in, nor does she seem to care to.  Kendra Donovan is supposedly a child prodigy; she went to college at 14, and became a brilliant profiler with the FBI after that.  She’s […]

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1/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Finally caught up! #CBRBingo

Written In My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander, #8) by Diana Gabaldon

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I liked this one as much as I liked Dragonfly in Amber and Drums of Autumn. A definite improvement over the last several books, although I did enjoy #7 as well, if not quite as much. I’m officially caught up on this series now, and that feels weird! These books are so long, and they’re still not done! Not even going to try and sum up what happened in this book. It was a lot. There was a lot of drama, but unlike in past books, pretty much everything that happened was relevant and non-objectionable (a point in this books […]

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11/27/2018 's CBR10 Review No:138 |

“History is booooooring”

Time Twisters by Steve Sheinkin

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This series by Steve Sheinkin has its moments. They might not be for the adult reader, but the child reader (about ages 7 to 9) will get a kick out of our heroes Abby and Doc time-traveling through history. In history class, Abby and Doc are reading about Abraham Lincoln. But something is not right. All he is doing is sitting, reading the newspaper, playing handball in the alley near his home and where is that famous beard? How did this happen? Historical figures have become tired of hearing, “History is booooooring” from the students, so they decided to show […]

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11/12/2018 's CBR10 Review No:425 |


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