by Kelley Armstrong
Book: A Rip Through Time #1
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Pub Date: May 31, 2022
Genre: New Adult
Format: eARC
Source: NetGalley
Book Links: Goodreads
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In this series debut from New York Times bestselling author Kelley
Armstrong, a modern-day homicide detective finds herself in Victorian
Scotland—in an unfamiliar body—with a killer on the loose.
May 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with
her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in
distress. She’s drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses
consciousness.
May 20, 1869: Housemaid Catriona Mitchell had been enjoying a
half-day off, only to be discovered that night in a lane, where she’d been
strangled and left for dead . . . exactly one-hundred-and-fifty years before
Mallory was strangled in the same spot.
When Mallory wakes up in Catriona's body in 1869, she must put aside her shock
and adjust quickly to the reality: life as a housemaid to an undertaker in
Victorian Scotland. She soon discovers that her boss, Dr. Gray, also moonlights
as a medical examiner and has just taken on an intriguing case, the
strangulation of a young man, similar to the attack on herself. Her only hope
is that catching the murderer can lead her back to her modern life . . . before
it's too late.
Outlander meets The Alienist in Kelley
Armstrong's A Rip Through Time, the first book in this utterly
compelling series, mixing romance, mystery, and fantasy with thrilling
results.
My Review: I loved the idea of this book overall. Foreign country, detective, and time
travel with some history. A good mix of my favorite things.
But for me, I wasn't sucked into this book in the way I had hoped. The alley
attack and sudden jump into a new era, eh I was surprised how quickly it got
there and well, it was just really slow for me. Mallory is doing her quick
detective thinking and realizing okay, this is happening and its really 1869 now.
She needs to figure out how she went from being attacked in an alley, to the
past and how to get back to the future before her grandma dies.
While in 1869 things are moving slow, but I guess it goes with Mallory trying
to figure out how things work there and so on, but eventually when it did pick
up was at the end. BUT what I do love is that Kelley always writes a good
strong woman character that I love, I did love Mallorys character.
For me it took a while, but I do want to give the second book a try and see if
it gives me the series I know I can get with Kelley.
