- Interesting characters.
- The historical parts were really cool. Gladiators, titanic, etc.
- I loved the time travelling, and that's actually coming from someone who can be a bit iffy about time travel books. It was a perfect balance of interesting time travel mind-fuckery, but still being easy to grasp. Sometimes time travel can be SO confusing that it's no longer even fun to read about because I'm so lost... that wasn't the case here. It was a cool idea but also easy to understand what was happening and how actions affected the future.
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- The main character, Far, is already in a relationship with one of the other crew members when the book started. The romance wasn't the total focus of the story but it still played a significant part. It was hard for me to be really invested in it though because it was already in full swing when the book started. I just wasn't hugely attached to it and that was kind of a bummer.
- The technology was kind of weird/confusing. For example, there's a bunch of math that needs to be done to time travel and here's a quote:
"The numbers weren't just changing this time. They were disappearing."
That just made no sense to me. I didn't really get the whole numbers changing/disappearing thing. How does that even happen with math? I just really, really didn't get how that whole part worked.
- There were a few slow parts - particularly in the middle. But it really sped up again at the end!