Review: there is almost nothing about Meg and Llevelyn here: it is the story of their son David
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 24, 2012
The book is in the teen section!. I did not realize this since I got hooked by a teaser chapter in the prequelDaughter of Time:  A Time Travel Romancewhich is supposed to be a "time travel romance" and therefore for a different audience. OK, my fault.The first third of the bookFootsteps in Time: A Time Travel Fantasy (After Cilmeri)can keep you hooked because it describes what happens with two teens who have just arrived from our time to medieval Wales. After that I can't imagine my own teen son to be able to waddle through all this pages of battles were there is a lot of description about strategy, politics and weather. And a fuzzy baby! Maybe knights driving a van would make him stick to the page?If you are an adult and like me got here to follow the love story of Meg and her prince beware (*slight spoiler*) that they hardly see each other and the few interactions between couples are the most superficial and cliche I have ever seen. You wonder if the author is a teen herself? it is as if she can't stand intimacy and just jumps "18 moth later" to skirt around the only love story of the book. She shows no understanding about the complexity of human relationships and even the adult characters act like children. Notably Meg (the mother of the protagonist)who is supposed to be an expert in medieval history can't stop complaining about the way people behave in that period. I would give the book one or 2 stars but:The second book of this bundlePrince of Time (After Cilmeri)took me by surprise, maybe because I stopped expecting much about the story, maybe because the author really matured as a writer. The book is fast passed and keeps mainly to only 4 characters and their adventures as they travel in time. It has interesting thoughts about what in means to have a purpose in life. The parent-daughter/son relationships are too extreme and the adults of the story are too absent, but all in all the book keeps an entreating straight line if you just let it flow and don't stop to error proof (for example, a knight talking about his brain?).Update: I found  out later that more about Meg in the period of "footstep in time" can be found in  the novellaWinds of Time: The After Cilmeri Series, but I haven't started it yet.