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Book Review of Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, Bk 1)

Blackout (Oxford Time Travel, Bk 1)
Helpful Score: 1


Probably the most important thing to know about this book is that it is really half a book. It ends with events completely up in the air with a "to be continued" on the last page. Oxford in 2060 has historians being sent into the past to observe events on a regular basis. The main characters in this book are in various times and places (London during the blitz, the evacuation of Dunkirk, etc.) of WWII from 1939 to 1945. They have been doing time travel for 40 years at Oxford, but for the historians in this past era things begin to go wrong and they have no way of knowing why. It's an interesting premise, but until the completion of the next book "All Clear", it's difficult to give an opinion overall.