Hmmm, not sure what to make of this book. Normally I love a time travel book, but this seemed to be dipping its toes into all kinds of different genres without giving any one enough heft.
The premise is that a time travel machine is discovered and for some reason the titular ‘ministry of time’ decide to pull a handful of people from different points in history and keep them in a big house for a while to see what would happen.
There could have been a lot of fun/interest out of what these historical figures thought of modern sensibilities and technologies, and this is touched on but not nearly as much as I feel it should have been. A lot of the book seems to be based around the slow burn romance of the main protagonist, an unnamed contemporary time person with the arctic explorer that it is her role to mind.
Quite far into the book it suddenly becomes a thriller, with future baddies chasing and killing people. I can’t even remember how it ended now, and it’s only 12 days since I finished reading it. I didn’t totally hate it, but didn’t love it either.
Sarah Wray Writer 