2016 science fiction, seventh in the Chronicles of St Mary's series
(time travel). A young Historian gets emotional, and the others throw
aside good sense to support him.
This is a relatively non-traumatic entry in the series, with some
actual successful historical expeditions, though tension remains high.
It's fun to see the historians doing their jobs and not only
recovering from disasters (I particularly liked the observation of the
Coronation of George IV); it's less fun to realise that, given time
travel, there's no way you can put a particular person behind you even
if you've seen him die, because you don't know what else he got up to
in his past and your future.
This series which has so far had time travel as its one impossibility
introduces a suggestion of supernaturalism that doesn't sit well – and
leaves it unresolved.
Ronan does start to feel like a deus ex machina villain, wheeled in
whenever an external threat is needed. (Isn't anyone else a problem?)
But mostly this one's more of the same and for me didn't leave much of
a trace.
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