This book was absolutely nothing like I expected it to be, but completely blew my mind. 
 While this book begins on the slower side and is a little difficult to get into to, by the middle its hard to put down, and a little further than that, impossible to stop reading. This book was full of adventure, travel, romance, and a wildly unique introspective view of the lengths people will go to, to save those that they care about. 
 I am usually not a huge fan of historical fiction (or time travel), but I found that the issues in this book made me so much more attached to it's characters. It's impossible not to fall in love with them and to not appreciate history a least a little more after it's over. Also, the time travel was never repetitive and always added a new twist to the plot. You would expect this to become confusing, but I never found myself wondering how pieces of the plot matched up and they all seemed to fall effortlessly into place by the end. 
 Also, this book was full of quotes that I loved. So, so many beautiful words. 
 Can't wait to read the second book of this duology. I'm officially hooked.