I didn't give the book a rating as I realized that I got several pages into the book that I already read this story. Back in 2004 Jack McDevitt wrote a novella in a compilation of the "Worlds Best Time Travel stories" that was this exact story. The first difference I could see is that the novella was 70 pages long as this is over 300. While the mystery and chase are pretty much spoiled for me for this book, I might look through it at a later time to see what sort of time traveling adventures were added in. I throughly enjoyed this book. Jack McDevitt's work is solid. He's a great writer, and this book made me want to start reading biographies! lol... This book was very well told and interesting. I loved the adventures they had through out the book. I would have rated it a five star, but I got irritated with the characters a few times. Occasionally they came across as annoying and closed minded/non imaginative. Although, overall it was a great book.
This book was fabulous fun. Held me to the end and kept me turning pages. I loved this one.
—rachels
Fun read. I figured out how the end worked out, though, so that wasn't a surprise. :/
—Vikkie
A time travel book, with an interesting side effect of providing mini-history lessons.
—Riyah
Hm...not very exciting. has a lot of looooooong parts and few surprising moments.
—kikilovessav
Another fun read from Jack McDevitt!
—Junior5447
