Review: Great until the end
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2013
I really enjoyed this book. What's more, I read it almost in one sitting.  I stayed up way past when I should have gotten to bed, because I couldn't wait to get to the end.Unfortunately, it would appear the author had the same problem.The author did a great job of capturing the feeling of a mining town during the gold rush.  I felt like I was there, like I could smell the manure on the streets and the smoke from the fire.  There were minimal errors in grammer and punctuation, in fact, I only noticed one word that seemed to be missing an "s" at the end.  I cared about the characters, the main ones, the secondary ones.These are all necessary components of a great novel, and in that the author succeeds.  Yes, a time travel novel requires you to suspend belief to begin with, but there still needs to be a logical outcome.  Without giving away the ending, think of Back to the Future and how Marty McFly goes back and changes the lives of his family. When he returns to his time, he sees the impact of those changes.  There was nothing that occurred in the past, in this novel, to change the future, yet there are changes that are not explained.  Even worse, there are contradictions in what the character first sees vs. what she later discovers.  I also found the lack of some type of closure for some of the secondary characters to be disturbing.This could have been a five star book, if only the end had been provided the same attention to detail that the beginning and middle had.