Our heroes and heroines just managed to survive and succeed in their first time mission mostly by luck. They’re now in intense training and the leaders even have them merged in as shadows of another squad with none other than President Nixon as their new leader. None of them are too happy about this, but they do admit they need more knowledge before heading into the field again. And Delia and Titus keep bumping heads. They soon get called in to help when sensors indicate something is whacky with Our heroes and heroines just managed to survive and succeed in their first time mission mostly by luck. They’re now in intense training and the leaders even have them merged in as shadows of another squad with none other than President Nixon as their new leader. None of them are too happy about this, but they do admit they need more knowledge before heading into the field again. And Delia and Titus keep bumping heads. They soon get called in to help when sensors indicate something is whacky with the timeline in Versailles in the 1700s. Are they prepared for just HOW whacky things really are and can they fix the problems?Get ready for another wild ride through time! That second half of the book especially takes a lot of close reading and observing of pictures to follow well. Which isn’t bad. It would kind of be a disappointment if a time travel adventure didn’t get a little wild and weird. I like the personal development that’s also happening, and the building of skills among the team members. The mystery of what caused the rift between the Earl and Lyndon also gets a little development and a mind-blowing ending to this book. It was a really interesting choice to have Nixon as their leader, but it wasn’t bad. I had students asking me before Christmas when this book would be coming out. They are quite eager for it to hit the shelves and I don’t think they’ll be disappointed, but they will be just as eager for book 3 to come asap. I’ve had several students read the first book that were sucked in because it was a graphic novel with an attractive cover even though I’ve never seen them reading any other time travel books or scifi in general for that matter, so it seems to be a good gateway book for them to taste test whether they like those genres. This entire series is recommended if you’re looking for a book to get a reluctant reader devouring a book, and as mentioned, get those who might think they don’t like scifi sneaking over to check out other scifi books. And of course, hand this to those faithful scifi/time travel fans, and graphic novel fans.Notes on content: No language issues. No sexual content (there’s an almost kiss, but nothing happens). Some perilous situations but everyone seems to end up ok.I received an ARC of this title from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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