"30th Century: Escape" eBook was published in 2017 and was written by Mark Kingston Levin. This is his first novel to be published. This is the first book of a planned "30th Century Trilogy".

I categorize this novel as ‘R’ because it contains many scenes of Mature Situations. The story is mostly set in today's time, with some in other times in the future. The primary character is Captain Jennifer Hero.

Hero leads a task force in the 30th century. Humans have created the Syndos, genetically enhanced humans, in order to explore space. Syndos have come to think themselves superior to humans and a war rages between them. Hero's mission is to use a time machine and lead a group of her soldiers to the 27th century. There they will try to secretly introduce a genetic correction to the Syndos that they hope will make them more sympathetic to humans.

Hero, though, is suffering from burn out. Instead of following her men and women, she diverts herself to the 21st century. There she explores the Pacific islands, makes many friends and lovers.

I had high hopes, but I felt let down after spending 10.5 hours reading this 332 page science fiction novel. There was little science fiction in the story. Yes there was a small, very small amount of time travel. The bulk of the story was about Hero and the friends she made. And she made some very, very intimate friends of both sexes.

I think that the book should have been classified as a romance with some aspects of science fiction. I also felt that the characters were very two dimensional. There was also a clear thread of saving the environment throughout the story. The cover art is OK, though I think something closer to the story could have been chosen. I give this novel a 3 out of 5.

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The plot from this book was very Interesting and I liked the characters.

I skimmed through this one a while back and realized it wasn't my cup of tea. The " erotic" part was towards the end and it wasn't really good..

The characters were wooden and the sex scenes were totally unnecessary for the story.
I gave it two stars as I was able to finish it but I certainly would not bother with the other books in the series.

So this one is tough… I like the writing, I like the character development and the idea of the book…. But I just couldn't get into the story. I think I am just not an alien kinda gal.

I gave this book a good 70 pages before I gave it up. The dialogue was boring and the main character had no personality. Coming from the far future and being a super smart genius, compared to the current day people she comes in contact with, she made extremely stupid mistakes. All the time. I gave a up after the constant talk about fishing and boats. Not my thing.

A military woman from long in the future sends troops back to the 27th to fix history so humans don’t get genocided, but instead of heading the mission she slips off to the 21st to start a new life.
This story had a lot of potential, but the writing was surprisingly stilted for someone who’s published so much. On the other hand, this might be his first work of fiction, and if so the inexperience shows. The conversations feel wooden and the descriptions lack style; oddly enough, that happened more and more toward the end. Having read other sci-fi erotica recently, this simply pales in comparison. In fact, it’s odd that it is listed under erotica, as there aren’t any sex scenes until the last half, and even then it’s lackluster, pedestrian. One of the main reasons is the use of the word penis. . . exclusively; apparently the author lives in an ivory tower or cave where he’s never heard of another word for the male organ.
It’s not just the sex scenes, though; there’s not a lot of emotion in the writing, period. She cried, she felt sad, that’s it; no elaboration. By contrast, the science stuff goes on for pages. Her dissertation defense lasted far too long, making me think this was the whole point of the book, with the rest just framing. And most of the science was far over my head even when she was asked to explain it in layman’s terms. Annoying.
Some of the writing is just ridiculous. “You are the mother of the children. . .” Did you really think she didn’t know that, Jen? Another example: “Jennifer gritted her teeth, hoping she was not talking over his head. If she was, would his attraction to her die?” Seriously? What a modern 21st century woman, let alone 30th. More to the point, in the few scenes we get of the 30th century—as well as the 27th—they show worlds that don’t seem all that different from today, especially socially as compared to technologically. That makes no sense; not much thought was put into that. Another problem was all the characters I had to keep track of, particularly the women, as some of them had similar names.
I wanted very much to like this, which might account for some of the disappointment. I enjoyed the premise, all the way up to her being alone on the island. Once she was rescued it went downhill. Jennifer is for the most part a likeable lead character, though there were times when she was simply too good to be true. The anthropology and archaeology of the Pacific Islands was interesting, as it fit into my own hobbies, but in the end it didn’t lead anywhere, so I suspect it was just the author’s pet.
And it was so sad that we never saw the dolphin again. . .

I want to thank the publisher for granting me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The premise of this book is very interesting. The main character, Jennifer, lives in the future where the fate of humanity is at stake because of conflict with beings called "syndos". Therefore, she must send a team of people 300 years back to the past to a period in time where they can correct the "syndos" main's design fault. At the same time, Jennifer travels back to 2015 and that is where most of the plot unfolds. She initially arrives at an island and then soon meets people from the 21st century and develops relationships. A lot of these relationships become sexual in nature and we see the main character face challenges related to people's believes in this century.

Overall the book was ok, although I love reading about time-travel and sci-fi this book did not held my interest as much as other books in the same genre. There were pictures inserted throughout the book, these pictures depicted maps, the main character, and other related information. I think the book could have been better without these pictures as they did not added to my reading experience but in fact distracted me from it.

DNF @ 30%. The mobi version needs formatting and line editing.

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