Review: Good stories, nice romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 19, 2013
The outgoing Elizabeth has a crush on the reclusive Professor, who returns her affection but is so very upper-class-English repressed that it doesn't even occur to him to pursue her.  She moves form student to graduate assistant, staying in his life but only on the periphery.  Then she delivers corrected papers to his home just as he is opening a box of effects from the estate of Professor Simon's eccentric uncle.  They happen to touch a watch during an eclipse, and are swirled into the past.  There they are in 1930's New York with wrong clothes, no money, and no idea what happened.I thought the paranormal aspects were a bit artificial, and not needed.  The bad guy in the first story didn't have to be a demon, and it added nothing to the story that having him be a gangster didn't already add.  Ditto for the Nazi bad guys in the second story.  In each case Elizabeth & Simon figure out that each cares for the other as they fight gangsters/Nazi spies/murderers and save the world.However the stories were interesting, the differences in the protagonists real enough to keep up interest in their romance, and I liked the series enough to buy the 4th book.The editing errors are not too bad and not intrusive,