Review: Great idea with way too much guilt
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2014
I enjoy sci-fi and I have been hooked on time travel since I read "The Door Into Summer" in the mid 60's. This book is a good combination of military thriller and science fiction. The story concept is great and overall I enjoyed reading this book enough that I have purchased the next two in the series in spite of my comment below.Now for what I don't like about the story.1) SEALs are professionals and I can't imagine any SEAL feeling so much guilt for so long about something that they really had no conscience control over. OK, he did the deed and got them there. Honestly, you run the guilt thing into the ground and it interrupts the entire story line. We get it, he feels guilty. It seems he feels guilty for waking up in the morning and almost everything else he does throughout the day. Lets get over it and move on.2) Screwing up the timeline. I can see that they want to try to help get a reasonably sane person running the empire but all this nonsense about trying to "fix" the timeline is just soo much... nonsense. They have an impact on the timeline and there is nothing can be done about that, they are there. They sure can't fix it given they are there and they are interacting with the local population. Again this guilt thing. The way I see it, they still exist so they haven't impacted the timeline enough to cause either of the five of them to suddenly go "pop" and disappear. Either go live in a little village and stay obscure, which will probably still impact the timeline, or get into a full blown attempt to change the current condition, but stop feeling guilty about it. I think Helena said it best when she said they would never know if they changed it or not.This long drawn out guilt thing is ruining the story. I'm half way through the second book and thinking of dumping it and the third one, which I have purchased, without reading them because you can't seem to get Hunter over it.