Review: Earth's Children Series meets time travel
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 6, 2012
As another reviewer stated, this book focused on much more than just time travel. In the first chapter, we are introduced to Robert, a time traveler from the 2300's, who is preparing to travel back to prehistoric England. His assignment is to live with a tribe for 6 weeks, observe their culture and customs, and then return. The first section of the book tells of Robert's visit, and is very similar to reading one of the books from Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children series. The author descibes the day to day lives of the tribe/cave, including: hunting, cooking, group dynamic, living quarters, etc.When Robert departs for his own time after the 6 weeks, he is followed by one of the women in the tribe. She steps into the time portal a few seconds behind Robert, and gets lost in time. The second part of the book focuses on her life as she adjusts to the new time period, Robert as he searches for her, and various rescue attempts that are tried. This section of the book seemed to drag out for me, with a large amount of time spent on Yana's day to day life. In my opinion, much of this could have been cut out, as it seemed like needless "filler" to make the book longer. My main interest was in those searching for her, and how they set out to correct the timeline.Although the ending worked out well for the hopeless romantic, it didn't really fit in with the "rules" that time travel authors and books usually adhere to. Overall, it wasn't a bad story, and those who like prehistoric fiction books will really enjoy the first half!