Elise Morley is an expert on the past who’s about to get a crash course in the future.For years, Elise has been donning corsets, sneaking into castles, and lying through her teeth to enforce the Place in Time Travel Agency’s ten essential rules of time travel. Someone has to ensure that travel to the past isn’t abused, and most days she welcomes the challenge of tracking down and retrieving … retrieving clients who have run into trouble on their historical vacations.
But when a dangerous secret organization kidnaps her and coerces her into jumping to the future on a high-stakes assignment, she’s got more to worry about than just the time-space continuum. For the first time ever, she’s the one out-of-date, out of place, and quickly running out of time.
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Very creative story and enjoyed it. Didn’t end like I thought it would, and certainly kept me guessing throughout. My only nit to pick was the lack of romance. I know, I know—this wasn’t sold as a romance, but I kept hoping the time agent would fall in love.
Extremely interesting. If you enjoy time travel stories, you will like this book.
Didn’t care for ending
This is a pleasant, fast read. I wouldn’t say it is particularly original, but compared to a lot of slapped-together SF out there, this one has well-constructed characters and a decent plot.
Good read
I like time travel books and this one has a different twist. Much like the “The Road to Infinity “
I really enjoyed this easy little read. I enjoyed the unexpected twist in the story line at the end. If you are looking for an easy light read, this is the book for you.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and was disappointed when I finished. I hope it will be a long series.
This is a very short book which leads into many others. It is light reading. The premise is fun with time travel theme.
The year is 2012, but not the one we knew. In this 2012, an exclusive travel agency provides time travel vacations
to those in the 1% wealthy enough to afford them. Usually, these trips go smoothly. Sometimes, though, a client, for one reason or another, has to be brought back from the past by one of the agency’s special staff members.
“The Continuum” follows one such agency “Retriever”, Elise, and the chain of consequences that occurs when one of her retrieval missions — from the gangplank of a very famous ship — goes horribly wrong.
This is quick read; it’s very short. It falls right on the border between novel and novella, in terms of length. But, it’s a complete and well-told story, despite being brief. There’s a lot of humor and the book is pretty light in tone, for the first three quarters. After that, it definitely takes a turn in tone and becomes more poignant and bittersweet.
Tonal shifts in books are very difficult things to do well. The author needs a very deft hand or s/he risks making the reader feel cheated or frustrated.
I think the emotional beats are handled well, here, because one mistake leads to two others, and so on, until the mistakes are breeding like rabbits and things really are spining out of control. In other words, there’s a sense of natural progression.
This is the first in a series of books about this time travel agency. I’m looking forward to reading the second installment. As for this book, it’s a good read for a late summer afternoon, indoors or at the beach. I recommend it.
I’m not sure if this is a Young Adult novella, but it reads like one (IMO). That doesn’t mean it’s bad. The heroine is engaging and the action moves along at a good pace. It’s just a straight forward, simply written for YA (?) novella.
Here’s my problem with this time travel book. The nature of the time travel herein only allows travel on the exact same day, no matter what year. So for example, to travel to April 12, 1912, you must depart on April 12 of whatever year you are in. That is a silly premise, and as such it took me right out of the suspension of belief needed for this book, since how humans measure the passage of time is a construct, not an absolute. I wondered if you traveled to when Western Civilization was still using the Julian calendar rather than Gregorian, was that taken into account? What about travel to China, which used a different calendar altogether? Its poorly thought out and inconsistent as science, and thus fails from a dramatic sense.
This book proves that it’s possible to write a boring time travel story!