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I think one of these days I would like to read this book versus listening to it. I just got a feel that something was lost in translation from book to voice. I found it oftentimes confusing but mainly there were several scenes that just dragged on and it took a long time for the author to bring the value of the scene together.

The one thing I did like about the book was how difficult it was for the main character to survive in the past. The main character Brendan Doyle isn’t the most likeable main character but I still felt the desire to root for his survival. I did like the mixture of magic with science and how in the past what is magical but not so much in the future.

Some of the side stories don’t seem to have a point to the overarching story and it seems like the Darrow side story is tied up rather quickly just so the author can cross that plot off his list. There is also a feel of “can something for this guy just go right for once� which I dislike in books because it seems like the author is just throwing in obstacles to make the book longer. So given what I liked and disliked I left this book after the end with a feeling of the book just not meeting my expectations so that I is why I gave it 2 stars.

Bronson Pinchot did an okay job of the narration but I would have liked to see some differences in accent, tone or inflection between some of the characters because they gave from different time periods and geographical locations. With all those differences I was expecting something more in the voice narrations.