Thank you Netgalley and Minotaur Books/St. Martin's Press for the chance to read an advanced copy of A rip through time by Kelley Armstrong. This brand new series which is a departure from her Rockton books and not to be confused with her recent A stitch in time series which is more on the lighter side of gothic time travel/romance/ghost story, A rip through time has a darker, edgier feel and I loved it! Mallory, a modern-day homicide detective from Vancouver finds herself in Victorian Scotland—in an unfamiliar body—with a killer on the loose. Trying to adjust to being a Victorian maid, while using 21st century police procedure without giving yourself away is enough to drive you crazy!!! Luckily the master of the house also moonlights as a medical examiner and needs an assistant! As usual Mallory is a strong female character and the story had plenty of humour. It was fast-paced, and I read it quickly. I am totally looking forward to the next book.

My thanks to St. Martin's Press,.Kelley Armstrong and Netgalley.
I loved Ms. Armstrong's Rockton series. When she decided to end it, and came up with something new? I thought that maybe I might like it.
Nope. I just can't. Timelines and romance. "Wait, I just threw up and must spit it out!"
I never read Armstrong before Rockton, and now I know that I won't after.
This wasn't a bad book. Heck, I can see that many will.love this. Not me. This isn't my sort of story at all.

Name of Book: A Rip Through Time
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Genre: Time Travel/ Mystery
Publisher: Saint Martin’s Press ~ Minotaur Books
Pub Date: May 31, 2022
My Rating: 3.5

Mallory Atkinson is a Vancouver homicide detective but is visiting Edinburgh, Scotland on May 20, 2019 as her grandmother is dying. While jogging, she sees a woman being attacked, the next thing Mallory is being attacked. Additionally on May 20, 1869, a housemaid named Catriona Mitchell was attached and left for dead in this same spot! Only Mallory wakes up from her injuries but is now Catriona.

This is only my fourth author, Kelley Armstrong why it is taken me so long to get on the Kelley train I have no idea. But I am there now .. looking forward to reading another of her stories and yep! I have tons of options!!!
I read and love “Outlander” so had a feeling this was going to be as good,

So now I have to wait for Book #2!!

Want to thank NetGalley and Saint Martin’s Press ~ Minotaur Books for this eGalley. This file has been made available to me before publication in an early form for an honest professional review.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for May 31, 2022

My thanks to Minotaur Books, as well as to NetGalley, for the opportunity to read and review an early copy of A Rip Through Time.

Can you imagine getting attacked while jogging in Vancouver Canada and then waking up to find it's 150 years earlier in time?? I absolutely loved this book! Mallory (the main character) is hilarious as she does her level best to speak as people did in 1869 - and adjust to going from a 3o-year-old detective in 2019 to a 19-year-old housemaid in Victorian Scotland! It would be so much easier to do everything right if she just had her cell phone so she could look things up!!

I don't mean to make this book sound as though it's a comedy, however. There is plenty of intrigue and suspense in A Rip Through Time. Mallory is lucky enough to end up in a household where she is employed as Dr. Duncan Gray's housemaid since he’s fascinated by forensics and interested in new methods. Dr. Gray's older half-sister, Isla, is a chemist and she's a fabulous character! I think she may have been my favorite character in the book.

I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading time travel with some mystery, suspense, and humor thrown into the mix. I can't wait for the second book in the series to become available!!

I really do enjoy anything by this author. This is a nice modern twist and a time travel historical novel. It reminds me a lot of Outlander and I think that was the point. I will definitely read the next book.

A new series by my favourite author Kelley Armstrong? Yes please! After coming to the end of the Rockton series (one of my favourites by Kelley) I am so happy to be able to dive into a new series and the new setting she has created. If you are familiar with her work, I would say that A Rip Through Time is a combination of both Rockton (detective, mysteries, thriller) and A Stitch in Time (time travel and Victorian setting).

In the book, 30-year-old Vancouver detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While she is out on a jog to clear her head, Mallory hears a women cry out for help in an alley. Mallory approaches to offer assistance only to be attacked, almost strangled, and then loses consciousness. When she wakes, she finds herself in the body a 19-year-old Catrina Mitchell a housemaid who was discovered strangled and left for dead in an alley... exactly 150 years before Mallory was attacked in the same spot.

It did take me some time to get hooked and properly invested in this story, but I think that with this being the first book in a new series, that was to be expected. So much information had to be given at the beginning and an entire world and the concept of time-travel had to be introduced; onto of this, Mallory needed time to process everything and to adapt to her new reality. Once the book reached about 50% I became extremely invested in the crime that was being solved and the characters. I enjoyed the detective work and Mallory's various attempts at convincing her employer, Dr. Duncan Gray (who is an undertaker and medical examiner) that he should allow her to assist him and the investigation.

I can not wait to read more of this story and see what is to come for Mallory and Dr. Gray (especially after that last chapter!). I know that this is sure to become one of my new favourite series.

Thank you to St. Matin's Press, Minotaur Books and NetGalley for the eARC copy in exchange for an honest review.

Did Armstrong actually write this one? Is it a "ghost writer" using her name? Having read so many other of her series, it just may be that this one was way too similar to Outlander for my tastes and too dissimilar from the books prior that i absolutely loved. ., with the overdrawn descriptions, the lack of stress about actually traveling back in time.

I haven’t read anything by this author before so I can’t compare it to her other works. What had me intrigued about this one was solely based on the blurb. Time travel is always a unique concept and it’s fun to see how an author will choose to wield it in their plot. Although I found some things to like in this novel, a lot of it was bogged down by the things that I didn’t. It was at least a quick read!

The book is told from one point-of-view and it comes from Mallory. She is a detective in Canada but is presently in Edinburgh to be closer to her grandmother who is dying. I thought that it was an interesting choice to start the story off this way, especially if she is not to be around. This is one thing that I didn’t like because Mallory is very much grieving the inevitable and wants to make it back to present time but kind of forgets all about it in a way by the end of the book.

I guess that also brings me to my next point. Nothing is ever elaborated on when it comes to the time travel aspect, not even by the end of the book. The ones that she also tells about it seem to just believe her without questioning it. I mean if the person she is inhabiting at the time was a thief and a liar before, how is it not seen as a far fetched lie? I understand that time travel is unbelievable and maybe I am expecting too much from other things feeling more realistic. I also wasn’t a fan of the whole “trying” to fit into the era Mallory finds herself in. It was very cringe.

The blurb mentioned romance and I can see where it might go but nothing ever happened in this book.

Overall, it was okay. I did like the mystery even if it wasn’t very thrilling. It still kept me a bit engaged. I don’t think that I will be continuing on with this one as it just wasn’t my cup of tea.

Thank you to the publisher and @NetGalley for the E-ARC copy of this book. The rating of this book is entirely of my own opinion. #NetGalley #ARipThroughTime

Another wonderful Kelly Armstrong book this one involving time travel.Fans of Outlander Will love this.Glad this is the first in a new series can’t wait for the next one will be recommending.#netgalley #st.Martins press

A Rip Through Time reminded me of the time travel, FBI agent Kendra Donovan series by Julie McElwain. I love the time travel element, the mystery, and the hint of romance. Armstrong's book hasn't been published yet and I am already anxious for the sequel.

I’m going to start out by saying that I did not know this was going to be a series and when the story ends and there’s a whole book missing (or at least one, I’m not sure what the plan is) I was so bummed that this was an ARC because now I have to wait extra long to see what happens with Mallory. So just be forewarned that everything isn’t wrapped up with a pretty little bow at the end of this. And it’s so good that you’ll want to know what happens right away.

I love the main character, Mallory. Is it a little hard to believe that she would know enough about the Victorian era to get away with not drawing even more attention to herself than she does in this book? Sure, yes, but I’m willing to suspend my disbelief because: time travel. Looking beyond that, I love that she’s a strong, independent woman who is good at her job, who has a life outside of her job, and who doesn’t need a man in her life to give her worth. She’s smart, she’s scrappy and she’s got a good head on her shoulders. I’m glad we get to find out even more about her as the story goes on. And I’ve got to admit, seeing how frustrating it would be for a 21st-century woman to be stuck in the 19th century, both science-wise and with the gender divide, is more interesting than I thought it would be. I grab my phone 16,000 times a day, so it would be really hard to be without it.

The Victorian characters are also very well developed. Dr. Grey and Officer McCreadie are good guys who are really into advancing science and police work, respectively, Isla is that character that you just want to be bffs with, and though you don’t get a lot of Alice, the much younger housemaid, I’m hoping we learn more about her as the series goes on.

The murder mystery itself is compelling. I don’t know much about Jack the Ripper (which is alluded to), but I don’t think you really need that knowledge to understand or appreciate what’s going on. There are really two parts to the mystery, and though the first part comes to a close at the end of the first book—and I totally didn’t see it coming until Mallory was putting the pieces together herself—I know the second part is going to be even more interesting.

If you like detective stories, if you like forensic science, if you like the Victorian era, or even just some great characters, I highly recommend you pick up A Rip In Time. I hesitate to say there’s almost something for everyone here.

4.5 STARS

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press and Minotaur Books for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Excellent book in a new time-travelling, great main characters both with complex and believable lives of their own., the historical details are immersive and accurate. I look forward to the next book in the series..

Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for providing me with an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

I loved Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series, and have yet to pick up one of her other series. When I saw this available for request at Netgalley, I jumped at the chance to try a new one.

That's my mistake, not because the book is bad, but because it was REALLY good and now I have to wait who-knows-how-long for book two!!!!

Mallory is a fantastic character, well developed, brave, intelligent, and thoughtful. The supporting cast members are all interesting, and the plot definitely was a good mystery. I also enjoyed the setting, the world-building, and the excellent pacing of the story.

I did guess the solution a little early, so couldn't give it a full 5 stars, but 4.5 (had to round down for Goodreads/Amazon) is still great! Absolutely worth picking up.

A Rip Through Time is Kelly Armstrong's latest, and it's a great start to a very promising series that is perfect for fans of Outlander. I'm so excited to get fans of the show (and books) introduced to this and definitely think this is a must buy for all collections. I loved reading this!

Kelley Armstrong combines a murder mystery and time travel in a historical setting in this first book in a new series. It’s May 20, 2019 and Vancouver homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is in Edinburgh, Scotland to be with her dying grandmother. While jogging, she hears and sees a woman being attacked and goes into an alley where she is also attacked. It’s May 20, 1869 and housemaid Catriona Mitchell is discovered in a lane where she has been left for dead. It’s the exact spot where Mallory was attacked 150 years later. Mallory wakes up in Catriona’s body in 1869 and quickly has to adjust to being a housemaid to an undertaker in Victorian Scotland. The undertaker, Dr. Gray also assists Detective McCreadie. They are investigating the strangulation of a man, similar to Mallory’s attack. She hopes that catching the murderer will lead her back to modern times.

Mallory is a character with plenty of depth. She’s hardworking, kind, relatable, and makes for a strong female protagonist that readers can cheer on. The supporting cast of characters are well-developed and provide insight into individuals in various roles in a Victorian household as well as those they interact with.

Kelley Armstrong has a fluid writing style that quickly brings readers into the well-paced story. They also get insight into the state of police forensics during this early era and a few insights into chemistry, diversity, and how servants are treated as well. Other themes include family, relationships, sanitary (and other) conditions, and much more. There is a hint at a couple of potential romances, but nothing more. The world-building was great and felt accurate for the times. The ending has plenty of action and wraps up many threads, but leaves a few open to be explored in future books in the series.

Overall, this is well-written, engaging, and entertaining with complex characters in a historical setting. I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series.

St. Martin’s Press – Minotaur Books and Kelley Armstrong provided a digital ARC of this novel via NetGalley and the opportunity to provide an honest review. Opinions are mine alone and are not biased in any way. Publication date is currently set for May 31, 2022.

A new series by a favorite author? Yes,please!
Based on the summary and my love for Armstrong's "Rockton" series, I was eager to read "A Rip through Time."
I am so pleased that I decided to take the opportunity.
This trip into 19th Century Scotland begins in modern day Edinburgh. Detective Mallory Atkinson is visiting her Nan, who is in ailing health. While during some down time Mallory decides to go for a run to air her mind. While on her run she passes an alley and hears pleas for help from a young woman. Mallory, in "cop mode", heads down the dark alley hoping to help a young woman in trouble. Instead,she finds herself in the thickest of trouble. She ends up passing out during an altercation and upon waking, finds herself 150 in the past! Mallory is now known as Catriona and is the housemaid for a mortician and his scientifically minded sister.
The majority of this book involves Mallory learning how to cope in the 19th century as well as connecting the dots that will hopefully get her back to modern day Scotland and her dear Nan.
For me, this new style of writing from Armstrong shows how wonderfully capable she is writing a witty,fun tromp into the past. She still includes murder and mystery in her plot which Armstrong excels.
I will definitely recommend and will look forward to the next installment.

After Cainsville, I knew I had to request this read. What a fun time I had!

When police officer Mallory happens upon a crime in a Scottish alleyway, she is inexplicably transported 150 years back in time.

Inhabiting another body, Mallory is now Catriona, a 19 year old housemaid to a local doctor who—as fate twists—investigates homicides.

While slowly trying to figure out what happened to her, “Cat” begins to assist her new master with his investigations. What follows is a rich cast of interesting characters, plenty of intrigue (and humor!) and action that never relents.

I’m hooked and will keep eyes out for next installment.

Recommend to Armstrong fans and readers of Victorian crime novels. Or anyone wanting a GREAT story!

I really liked A Rip Through Time. It mixes several elements together to create a unique story. Time travel with a mystery element, historical with police procedural blended together well. All the characters were well developed and I could understand their view points and actions. Particularly interesting was the comparison between modern police procedure and that of the Victorian era. Having the author incorporate them and address them was a nice detail. I felt drawn into the story and I was satisfied with the resolution while still leaving the path for another book to pick up. There was plenty of action in the plot, with very little filler or downtime in the story, which kept it moving along. The incorporation of everyday tasks such as teeth brushing and chamber pots made the heroines struggles in the new time line feel valid.

Mallory is a great lead for this series. She is smart, funny, quick thinking, and good at problem solving. I am lookin*forward to reading more in this series.

I have read many time travel novels including Outlander which is what drew me to this book. Most of the time the time travel books are fairly accurate when it comes to the time period and use of language etc. I found that besides the odd use of lass, you would not know you were in Scotland.
At the beginning the method of time travel seemed a bit bizarre to me but that mattered less as the story continued.
By the mid point of the book, I was hooked on the story and by the end I loved it. My only question would be when is the next book? I can’t wait!!