This short (3-hour) time travel/paranormal romance started out rough but has potential. The first half of the story was trite and predictable, with stale dialogue and a lack of geographic detail. In the first scene, the author ridiculously expects the readers to believe that a huge swordfight happened outside of a townhouse in a modern city, and none of the neighbors noticed! The heroine’s mother also seemed very flat as a character. The heroine Ember was annoying for 1.5 hours and then greatly improved and gained a really interesting love interest. You would expect a 28-year-old medical student to be calm in a stressful situation, but Ember was often hyperventilating in the first half. I’m glad that she stopped that annoying behavior. I plan to listen to the next 2 books in this series since the second half was unpredictable and very enjoyable.
I didn’t like a few aspects of Sarah Puckett’s narration. She narrated every chapter except the final one. Overall, her performance is rather lackluster. Her character voices are not always distinct from each other. She even has some weird mispronunciations, such as pronouncing the “i” and “e” in “hurriedly” as separate vowel sounds. She also does not pronounce the “b” in “nimbly”. I played the audiobook on 1.2x speed so that the narrator’s semi-Valley-Girl accent was not noticeable. Aaron Shedlock did a 5-star job with his single chapter.
I requested and received a free audiobook copy via #AudiobookObsession and the Flock VIP Review Team, and I voluntarily wrote this honest review.