Published 7th January 2021 by Headline Accent.
From the cover of the book:
To save the future, she must turn to the past . . .San Francisco, Year 3377. A deadly virus has taken the world by storm. Scientists are desperately working to develop a vaccine. And Robin Johnson - genius, high-functioning, and perhaps a little bit single-minded - is delighted. Because, to cure the disease, she's given the chance to travel back in time.
But when Robin arrives at the last Ice Age hoping to stop the virus at its source, she finds more there than she bargained for.
And just as her own chilly exterior is beginning to thaw, she realises it's not only sabre-toothed tigers that are in danger of extinction . . .
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A Remedy in Time is the second book in the time travelling Tempus U series, but is is very different from the first book, A Crown in Time, which was for the most part a historical fiction novel based in Middle Ages France (A Crown in Time review here). This time around, Jennifer Macaire takes us on an action adventure mission going back thousands of years to the Ice Age.
Robin Johnson, scientist from the year 3377, is sent back in time to try to get some clues to help her discover a cure for a deadly virus that is killing thousands of humans and animals in her own time - one which bears a striking resemblance to a disease that seems to have existed twelve thousand years ago. However, once she travels into the past, she unexpectedly finds she has more on her hands than collecting samples and trying to stay alive in a hostile environment - it is going to be up to her to use all her many skills to the max, not just her scientific knowledge, to get through her ordeal and back to her own time.
This was such a fun book, with a protagonist you can unquestionably get behind and I found myself racing through the pages. Robin is a woman with a troubled past, focussed and labelled as a sociopath in her own time, but she turns out to be the perfect candidate for the varied tasks she is called on to perform when her mission is turned on its head - and while saving the future, she discovers she can save herself as well!
There are some great characters in this book, of both the hero and villain variety - and not all of them are human. Jennifer Macaire recreates a very realistic pre-historic environment for them to inhabit too, with terrain, flora and fauna all beautifully described, and you feel the menace of the dangerous environment throughout. If you are looking for tales of sabre-toothed tigers (smilodons), dire wolves, huge bears and even giant beavers, then you are in for a treat here. I became very fond of Yah, Robin's unexpected pre-historic ally, and I defy you not to fall in love with the adorable lonely glyptodon!
There's loads of action and suspense, and an intriguing underlying thread of the importance of Robin being able to find a cure for the deadly disease causing havoc in her time, which allows our author to bring in some thrilling elements of dastardly deeds and corruption that serve to raise the plot more than a few notches above your average time travel adventure - and the way she uses 'future' technology here is really very clever. In many ways, it reminded me of Michael Crichton's books, which is always a good thing.
The final part of the book is rather thought-provoking, bringing in some intriguing dystopian touches, and the ingenious ending has a few delightful surprises which round the story off beautifully. I thoroughly enjoyed this one and cannot wait to see where Jennifer Macaire goes next in her time-travelling series.
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Thank you to Jennifer Macaire and Headline Accent for providing me with a copy of this book in return for an honest review and to Rachel Gilby of Rachels's Random Resources Tours for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.
About the author:
All that is true. But she mostly likes to make up stories.
Find out more about Jennifer Macaire here:
Again, thank you for reading and reviewing my books, and I'm so glad you liked them! I did fall in love with the poor lonely glyptodon too - he surprised me, and really took over the book, lol.
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