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Time travel book. The 1st half has much more going on than necessary. But when Caesar arrives in the 1990s LA science lab it really takes off - what with bad guys chasing him (and Cassandra, linguist and reformed escort) from LA to Vegas and back. I liked it enough to forgive that it's a 13 hour audiobook that should have been 8 and had a few plot holes. A good editor could have made this great.

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Inventive, immersive time travel story. Overly long and slow first half - LA based scientists work to transport Julius Caesar to their 1990s lab. They hope to spend 4 days (for some reason Caesar HAS to be returned to 44 BC by that time) in study and research with Caesar, but he thinks he's been kidnapped and escapes their lab. THEN the fun really takes off. Loved the second half.

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This was a NetGalley audio, but I can‘t make myself blog about it.

The writing isn‘t horrible & the idea was good.

HOWEVER:

-ridiculously verbose, with back/side stories nobody needs & too many descriptions of clothing & cars.

-annoyingly sexist. Misogyny from a female author is even more gross.

-struggles to stick with a cohesive plot, spends too much time fawning over rich people stuff

-unnecessary insta-love

-dreadful narration

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For a novel that's supposed to have been twenty years in the making, it sure could have benefited from more editing. The ensemble of characters is huge. The book could have done without some of them, and definitely without the, irrelevant to the plot, backstories. Why the detailed descriptions of female clothes; why is it still shocking that women can be sexy AND intelligent. The casual sexism is annoying.

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Second Marion Lane historical UF mystery - the one with the pub that's open past 1am.

Seven Mercies - second in Seven Devils duology - not as gripping as I had hoped

A Coin for the Ferryman - 🎧 Time-Travel - Caesar has been transported from the Ides of March to a remote site, there's an attempt to kidnap him, but he must be returned to keep History/the timeline intact.