Escape in Time by Robyn Nyx is the first in the The Extractor Trilogy published by Bold Stroke Books.
It is basically a romance novel wrapped around a science fiction tale.
This book follows two main characters Landry (an extractor) and Delaney (an operative). They work for an organization known as Pulsus, a privately operated agency that travels through time making the future better by fixing problems in the past one person at a time. All that is wrapped around Landry and Delaney’s relationships with each other and other minor characters throughout the story. As agents they will be tasked with going back to Nazi Germany to save Dr. Chernick. The doctor died in a concentration camp while working on a promising cure for cancer. Upon saving the doctor the timeline should change, a cure for cancer is found, and billions of people are saved in both the past and the future.
(More about the premise of the book can be found in the official publisher’s description.)
Overall, I am going to give this book a 3.5 star rating which I will round up for the likes of Goodreads and Amazon where I cannot give a true rating. Rounding up because I mostly liked the book.
Time travel gives me a headache with too much to ponder and contemplate and this book is no exception.
My biggest question was how in the world do they live for years in the past and come back to their future being the same age. This is wasn’t made clear until near the end of the book when the regenerative tech is better explained. Up until that point one is left thinking it is simply a medical tool that helps heal wounds not revert aging cells. Although immortality is mentioned a few times before that.
The characters not all that likable throughout the book. With the exception of Landry and perhaps the focus of her attention Jade (at least for me).
There is plenty of explicit lesbian sex (not really needed, but as I said this is above everything else a romance novel) and a lot of explicit violence. Both of which may make some readers cringe.
CLIFFHANGER! I hate cliffhangers.
SPOILER WARNING
I was reading an ARC of the book and hope this issue is fixed in the published edition, but once the mission is completed the author seems to lose track of her own characters calling the now rescued Dr Chernick by the name Blumstein, which is the name of the German security guard they were to make contact with and became the lover interest for Delaney while in Nazi Germany. We see little of Blumstein in the book and since the entire story revolves around Chernick I cannot quite fathom how the author could seemingly forget the name. Has this been fixed Bold Stroke Books? Anyone?
Book Description from Bold Stroke Books
An Extractor is elite in every way, and Landry Donovan is no exception. Pulsus, an organization working to build a better future by saving people from the past, sends Landry’s team back to Nazi Germany to save a Jewish doctor working on a cure for cancer. For the first time on a mission, she’s distracted by thoughts of a woman—the enticing basketball player, Jade Carter.
Jacqulyn Delaney, a Pulsus Operative, waits in a concentration camp for Landry’s arrival. Her job is slowly messing with her mind, as is her desire to be more to Landry than just a friend with benefits. When an unexpected relationship blooms in Germany, it puts a new perspective on the future.
Can they save the doctor? Or will their personal demons leave them stuck in the past?
I will be reviewing the next two books in this series. Stay tuned for reviews on Change in Time and Death in Time coming soon.
Books in this series are now available.
I was given a copy of this book by Netgalley in return for an honest review.
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