Thank you NetGalley and Imbrifex Books for the eARC in exchange for an honest review. That being said, this was such an utter disappointment.

The way this book was described was not at all like the story that I read. It started strong: philosophical and ethical questions about abducting someone (from the past!) in the name of science. How would biological concerns be handled? And then of course there was basic communication problems to address. Everyone knew they were operating in grey areas and I was hoping the book would continue down this path, but then...

* A coin collector mixed up with an Eastern European mob
* The team's physician falls so madly in love with a colleague (after two days of obvious, non-stop creepy attention) that she becomes the group's bitchy female and social pariah
* High speed car chases around Los Angeles, in a manual transmission VW Beetle
* A deus ex machina helicopter flight financed by a poultry-empire billionaire
* Another two-day love affair that breaks hearts
* A truly bizarre kidnapping plot, that goes to attempted murder a few pages later (seriously, why does Hank have his sniper henchman attempt to shoot the plane out of the sky if he needs Caesar alive?)
* The wealthy woman in this book are abject idiots and everything is catered to their ridiculous social whims. Is Sonia really too much of a moron to understand the biological safety ramification of having a party of her house? And none of the scientists could talk her out of it?
* Having Eric Barza's first thought about every woman he met being "she's not bad for [age]" was annoying

Everyone just seemed so...dumb? after Caesar arrived. Much emphasis was put on their academic credentials and professional accomplishments, and then to have them turned into dolts was beyond the pale.

This book is way too long and cannot decide what it wants to be.