Review: quite good but read the first two prior to this one
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2013
This is a well written and well edited book. There were very few errors and they were very minor. The style was one I associate more with writing for young adults. By that I mean that there was very little of the inner thoughts and feelings of the main characters. Most of the story unfolds through actions and and words. The heat level was probably 1/5. There were two scenes in which there was no question what transpired but the descriptions were at a very high level. The descriptions of the locations and the action were detailed. The characterizations of the two main people were less so, and probably the weakest part of the book.This is the third book in a trilogy. For the most part, it doesn't matter but I did feel, especially near the end of the book, that I was missing something that would have been explained in the two previous books.The premise of the story is that Erik, a sea captain in the late 1800's finds his shipped sucked into a vortex the deposits them in the mid 1200's. He is immediately captured by an evil man who looks just like him and wants Erik to take his place. Erik meets Iliana. He immediately recognizes her as the woman he met three years ago. She mysteriously appeared on his ship, spent a week with him and then disappeared, leaving him heart broken. Iliana has no memory of this at all. Iliana believes him to be the evil man he looks like and treats him as such. Erik has to find a way to convince her who he is and gain her trust.He has also been transposed from America to England. But this isn't the England he knows from his history lessons. This England is rife with magic, sorcerers, dragons and magic gem, and the monarch is one who never sat on the throne.I would probably read the other two books as the writing was good and the story intriguing. I would have liked some explanation for the differences that were not related to time travel. I didn't think those aspects were resolved at all.