Review: Fascinating!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2014
Reviewed by Laurie Pfor TheRomanceReviews.comThis is a fascinating journey into one of the ultimate sci-fi "what if's". What if time travel is real? What if someone deliberately decides to change history? Loved the premise this story was based on, when most of these kinds of stories hold to doing nothing to change history. This story also has suspense and some mystery thrown in as well.Libby Drew has created a realistic future world and the characters that inhabit it are interesting, flawed, vulnerable and all of the rest of the things that make characters real and easy to relate to. The sci-fi aspects of the story flowed and were completely believable.This story did start out a bit slow, but it kept building as Reegan and Saul got together. It was fun watching Reegan's reactions to what is his history and Saul's reality. And it was fun to watch the two of them dance around their attraction for each other.Reegan is a history buff and a time travel tour guide. He is on shaky ground with his boss because of a mishap in a previous tour that led to a customer being injured. So he needs to be on his best behavior with this group. He panics when he loses a member of the group, who happens to be the wife of a very powerful man. How do you find someone who doesn't want to be found in a time you don't know? You hire a PI. It was interesting to watch how Reegan skirted the truth while trying to not completely lie to Saul.Enter Saul into the story. Saul who is as damaged a person as you'd want to meet. Who is just a drink of vodka away from losing both his sobriety and his job and all of this after losing his sister. And yet I loved him as a character, maybe because of his flaws.I loved the secondary characters of Silvia and Cammie, but Cammie especially. They were well rounded, strong and yet at times funny. And since Silvia started the whole mess by running away, it was interesting to see how the author makes her lovable, explaining the reason for her running and hiding.There is more I could say but then I'd be getting into spoiler territory and I can't do that. You need to read this book. Overall, this was an enthralling and entertaining story, and one I enjoyed thoroughly.