A Sword in Time. Cidney has a talent when it comes to story telling. The cover itself will immediately have you reaching for it

Not having read the first two books in the series, I dove into this story without any background information that I felt I might have needed. I'd recommend not to read this as a stand-alone.

A further caveat, there are seven points of view, which are further jumping around in time from present day to a few months back,.... POV and time are changing with each chapter.

I had a very hard time finding the story in all the jumping around and due to this wasn't very invested in it.

DNF
The storyline seemed a bit all over the place and too many different narrators.

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I received an ARC of this via netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was a cute chick lit read. A bit of mystery, intrigue, sexual tension and cheese all wrapped into one. Although so unbelievable, it still made me warm and fuzzy. I enjoyed the characters and their sense of humour.
I haven’t read the previous 2 books in the series though I think I’d pick them up. I want a bit more background on everyone though you could read this as a stand-alone. It’s a nice light read.

Overall I found this book an entertaining read. However, probably because I hadn't read the previous 2 books, some of the content was confusing-especially the first several chapters where the character's point of view wasn't clear. It had the typical time travel problems such as a "small" alteration in the past causing unforeseen effects/complications in the present. DaVinci's romance with Quint seemed a little rushed. However, I enjoyed this book, especially the Ancient Rome angle which is quite unusual in these kinds of books.
Thank you to Net galley for a copy of this book for my honest review.

I enjoyed the story line of this book, who doesn't?! This book is all about TIME TRAVEL! I've always loved the concept of time travel -if the technology was available now you could go on real-life field trip throughout history and really experience the lifestyle back in the day. However, in this story, time travel is used for personal use, to alter your own timeline. You meet a girl Davinci trying to save her childhood home from demolition where she travels through time in order to do so, but in doing so she alters her future when she returns. Alongside Davinci you meet other characters all tying along with the concept of time travel.. The only slight negative in this book was the jumping between characters at the beginning and personally I found it hard to initially get into the book.

I haven't read the previous book of the series, but so far this is a fun light read. Suspend disbelief and thoughts of paradoxes, for this novel opens with a young woman borrowing her friends’ time machine to travel back to ensure a leaking pipe gets fixed so her house isn't demolished, as she had just watched happen.

As well, this style of time travel produces duplicates of travelers, which is slightly confusing, as possibly it seems to only occur when people travel forward of their natural timeline?

Some rather interesting causality at work, the romance wasn't quite to my taste, but a fun light read, in what seems like it would be an interesting series.

Content note: attempted rape, slavery