Time Tourist Outfitters, Ltd.: A historical time travel adventure (Toronto Time Agents Book 1) Kindle Edition

Slow, pompous, poorly plotted. Writing is utterly sloppy. POV and verb tense change mid-sentence. Attempts at humor are awkward and just plain unfunny - embarrassingly bad. Author thanks beta readers. Shouldn't, because they did a crap job. From now on, I will only examine historical events in contemporary time with a team from St. Mary's.

Tired of the same old stories? Bored with the banal? Wish one book could have it all....sci-fi, intrigue, a little romance, a mystery, time travel, good guys, bad guys (and gals), comedy and more? This is it! Interesting characters and times abound. If you simply must miss out on reading a truly engaging story this year....don't let it be this one. Enjoy!

...And the story kept me interested. It was truly eerie to read about the Second Civil War in the U.S. & the break up of the states. At this point in time, I can see it happening...frightening.The story line kept me interested, the characters were quirky enough to be a fun read. I'd read a sequel, for sure!

Time Tourist Outfitters, LTD. By Christy Nichols.I enjoyed this book from the first page to the last. I enjoyed the main character who is a feisty middle aged woman who lives with her cat.I loved the characters who come alive on the page. I loved the exotic places fleshed out for our enjoyment. I loved the humor.I can't wait for the next book in this series.

The premise was interesting, but editing was a little lacking. The turn-offs for me were the constant whining about odors of all kinds, the coffee addiction comments, and the oft repeated "Christ on a Piece of Toast" curse. If you're going to insert curses, go ahead - I won't be offended, but at least be inventive.

This was not at all what I expected, nor like any time travel novel I've read before. Is this the first in a series? I highly recommend this novel for time travel with a different perspective.

Enjoyable read. Interesting mystery. Wonderful characters.

Three grand adventures rolled into one! Excellently descriptive, can easily "see" the action. Loved the salty, sarcastic female lead. Best read I've had in a while!

On the whole, this was an interesting book, with a fair amount of research evident.The falling apart of the USA within the next seven years seems a little precipitous, but whatevs. What really worried me, more than the ex-USA or plagues from history, is that Britain appears to have been invaded and overrun by Victorian gentry AND NO ONE HAS EVEN NOTICED.Seriously, no Brit in the last 150 years has been called Algernon even ironically, and the surviving gentry tend to be National Trust tour guides, not coppers. If a scion of the nobility were to accidentally join the Bobbies instead of the Blues and Royals, he'd have the title knocked out of him PDQ in Basic Training. Probably in Basic in the B&Rs, too, TBH. Also, Scotland Yard is not the British Police Force, it's the building where the Metropolitan Police Service is headquartered - so he wouldn't be "Sir Algernon St Clair of Scotland Yard", he'd be Detective Superintendent St Clair of the Met, possibly with a specialist unit designation. But since British police do not investigate random diseases* - especially those which have infected less than a dozen people worldwide - there's absolutely no justification for Sir Algernon fetching up in Canada in the first place. I'm really at a loss to see why this character was introduced at all, or why he's such a poorly researched character in a book that otherwise seems to do a competent job of research.* - That would be the job of the regional Public Health Agencies of the four constituent nations of the UK.

The idea behind this book is nothing short of brilliant, and I was looking forward to a great twist on the standard time-travel fare with the unusual bonus of a middle-aged female in the starring role. Sadly I was to be greatly disappointed.After an initial flare, this book quickly becomes a damp squib: the character development is practically non-existent leaving them one-dimensional and generally rather boring, while the main protagonist's blatant reverse sexism (all men appear deemed incompetent morons, potential rapists or simply not worthy of receiving basic civility) makes for some uncomfortable reading and rapidly becomes very grating. Conversations and events often come across as rehashes of earlier ones, albeit with slight changes in wording and location, while the ending feels disjointed and rather rushed, as if the author had to whack *something* down to meet a deadline, or someone else took the helm for the last few chapters. There are some small but glaring errors in the historical aspects, if you have knowledge of the time periods/events detailed, which is sad as it wouldn't have taken much research to make these sections of the book properly historically accurate - it's a little thing, but to me shows a lack of respect for the past and an assumption by the author that the reader has no knowledge of the period; they're not going to notice if this is the case.With such an extraordinary premise this book could have been epic, however despite genuinely wanting to like it, it became ever more of a struggle to get through; at one point I even considered my mother's trick of skipping to the last chapter to see how it turned out! I didn't do that, and persevered through the entirety - it did take me almost two months though, which is rather ridiculous for a book with just 372 pages. The concept showed such promise, it's just such a shame that the realisation of it fails to deliver

I really could not get into this story although I persevered until the end. I love time travel novels and the beginning piqued my interest. Then we are presented with a fait accomplait- time travel portals official and rogue. And then we have a mystery involving smuggling of mushrooms from the past to the present. Really? With all the great things mankind could do with time travel.. mushrooms? Sorry too be brutal but I couldn’t engage with any of the characters. Full marks to the author though for trying something new.

Happened on this book by accident - happy accident! Well written, congruent story with just the right amount of emotional tug. Great world building with a range of characters that I got drawn into and ended up reading in one session. When I got to the end, I hoped that there would be another, to extend the story - doesn’t appear so, but I would definitely read it. I will be looking out for other books by this author. Do give it a try, it’s a good story no matter what you normally read whether that is history, fantasy or just time travel. Have fun!

This book had some interesting ideas but it should have been better edited. The writing was sometimes rather stilted and there were far too many commas in some sentences and misuse of apostrophes. One of the worst factual errors was the band of bandits who arrived on horses then appeared to have camels. I will also stick with St. Marys.