Timeborne

I almost didn’t finish this book. The bones of the book are good, meaning the premise of the story is a good one which is why I picked up in the first place but other than that it was a complete dud. There was no meat on those bones! Didn’t care about the characters, they seemed to just get together willy nilly. No invested interested in any of them. And the writing just wasn’t good.

I had such high hopes...

Let me start by saying I read and listened to this book. I wanted to like it, but it is trying entirely too hard. The writing style seems to be all over, the dialogue was kind of cringy jumping from one extreme of a Lara Croft type FMC character to a love sick heroine calling the MMC “baby.” The spice? About as spicy as mayo. At one point I actually realized I rolled my eyes as our FMC is saying she is barely familiar with Aramaic and then in the next sentence has miraculously translated an entire paragraph of scripture she didn't know and also miraculously just remembered perfectly. This story had a lot of build up for what seemed to be a rushed delivery to end on a cliffhanger.