Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ

When it takes me a while to finish a book, when I am not eager to get to it every night before lights out, I wonder why...

I was drawn to this story that is based on time travel and intrigue. It is also a love story but a subtle one...The story is about a a handful of people who have been pulled from the past into the present because they were going to die anyway. They each are given a bridge, and the story focuses on the narrator who is the bridge for Graham Gore as he learns to adapt to modern London life (Gore was a naval officer who had been on the Erebus, one of two ships in the fatal Franklin expedition in Arctic waters -- the other being the Terror --when both crews ended up disappearing when the ships became ice bound in 1845).

This book has a really good premise, but it is slow going for the first 200 pages as there is not much plot. Nothing much really happens -- although we get to know the characters better, including Arthur, who had been pulled out of the trenches and Maggie who is from the 16th century and has a very fun way of expressing herself.

When the plot kicks in, I feel that I might have missed the reason why the people had been pulled into the present from the past (something about saving the future), but it did become more page turning in the last 150 pages. But it's not clear why these specific individuals were chosen nor what the goal of the Brigadier is nor why things are going to hell in a hand basket.

The writing itself is fresh and well crafted. And I can totally see this made into a movie (so I was not surprized to read that the rights have already been bought up). As a side note: a TV show had been made on the doomed Franklin expedition called The Terror, and it was already on my watch list when I picked up this book, so I wonder how Gore will be portrayed there.