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Time Shadows
A girl with nothing to lose is sent back in time to reconcile the past mistakes of an 800-year old sorceress.
Morgan, a powerful 800-year-old sorceress, wants to make amends for the bad things she’s done during her long life. She has perfected a spell that opens a gateway to the past - the only problem is that she can’t return to a time she’s already lived through. If she does, both her younger spirit and her current form would cease to exist. The only solution is to convince someone to travel back for her—someone that wouldn't be missed if things went wrong.
Sage Aster doesn’t really believe that Morgan can send her back to the past, so as payment for the kindness Morgan showed her when she was homeless and alone, Sage agrees to the time travel experiment. She is then stunned to find herself transported back to 1912 aboard the doomed Titanic.
Again and again Sage is sent back to different timelines, never quite knowing what she is supposed to accomplish—or how to make things right.
Morgan, a powerful 800-year-old sorceress, wants to make amends for the bad things she’s done during her long life. She has perfected a spell that opens a gateway to the past - the only problem is that she can’t return to a time she’s already lived through. If she does, both her younger spirit and her current form would cease to exist. The only solution is to convince someone to travel back for her—someone that wouldn't be missed if things went wrong.
Sage Aster doesn’t really believe that Morgan can send her back to the past, so as payment for the kindness Morgan showed her when she was homeless and alone, Sage agrees to the time travel experiment. She is then stunned to find herself transported back to 1912 aboard the doomed Titanic.
Again and again Sage is sent back to different timelines, never quite knowing what she is supposed to accomplish—or how to make things right.
- GenresTime TravelFiction
240 pages, Paperback
Published February 6, 2018
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May 8, 2022
I’ve had a bit of a bad run with books recently, so it was nice to find a book that sucked me in from the first few pages, to the extent that I checked if there was a sequel before I continued.
It’s not as much about the Titanic as I was hoping, despite the predominant placement of the ship on the cover. The Titanic section is over and done with by page 50 and despite a slight typo/discrepancy about the time the Titanic sank (2.20am, not 1.20am), it was an enjoyable section.
The rest of the book reads similar to a Quantum Leap story - our main character Sage, is jumping back in time, to right wrongs that have been done. I found it interesting that rarely does she know what she’s going back to do or what these “wrongs” entail, so there was quite a bit of trial and error. I found nearly all the characters beautifully described, although I struggled a bit with John and Lyle for some reason, they just didn’t seem very well described in my opinion. I couldn’t picture them as clearly as I could Morgan or Sage.
I was a bit disappointed that there wasn’t more time travel involved, which is why I was looking for a sequel and you do get the impression that the author was gearing up for a sequel. It has been four years now since this was published and no sign of a sequel yet. (Or maybe she decided to go against the trend and not release a million sequels.) There’s not any time travel in the last 40 pages, and it concentrates more on Morgan’s magic and Sage’s growing magic. There’s a nice little twist on the penultimate page, one that I didn’t see coming.
It is a quick read, due to the short chapters and this is an easy finish within a day, if you have the time. It’s only 240 pages long, so it can be fairly zipped through. I am glad for me, this has stopped my run of rubbish books and I hope to see more of Sage’s story in the future.
It’s not as much about the Titanic as I was hoping, despite the predominant placement of the ship on the cover. The Titanic section is over and done with by page 50 and despite a slight typo/discrepancy about the time the Titanic sank (2.20am, not 1.20am), it was an enjoyable section.
The rest of the book reads similar to a Quantum Leap story - our main character Sage, is jumping back in time, to right wrongs that have been done. I found it interesting that rarely does she know what she’s going back to do or what these “wrongs” entail, so there was quite a bit of trial and error. I found nearly all the characters beautifully described, although I struggled a bit with John and Lyle for some reason, they just didn’t seem very well described in my opinion. I couldn’t picture them as clearly as I could Morgan or Sage.
I was a bit disappointed that there wasn’t more time travel involved, which is why I was looking for a sequel and you do get the impression that the author was gearing up for a sequel. It has been four years now since this was published and no sign of a sequel yet. (Or maybe she decided to go against the trend and not release a million sequels.) There’s not any time travel in the last 40 pages, and it concentrates more on Morgan’s magic and Sage’s growing magic. There’s a nice little twist on the penultimate page, one that I didn’t see coming.
It is a quick read, due to the short chapters and this is an easy finish within a day, if you have the time. It’s only 240 pages long, so it can be fairly zipped through. I am glad for me, this has stopped my run of rubbish books and I hope to see more of Sage’s story in the future.
January 13, 2019
An interesting and fun story, and one which you can tell that a lot of research was done to make it as historically accurate as possible. Even though this novel strays from her normal dystopian genre, it's easy to tell she enjoyed doing something a little different. I hope she decides to continue the story with a sequel; I enjoyed it.
August 2, 2017
Surprising plot line and extremely well-written. I couldn't put it down. I am still savoring the story, days later. This is one that seems like easy light reading but the characters and story get into your brain and stay there.
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