Baker, Kage - In the Garden of Iden
Wed, Nov. 9th, 2005 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterI read this after several people on LJ raved about Kage Baker, and I am completely puzzled. Alas.
In the future, people have figured out how to time travel. Also, there's some giant conglomorate called the Company that sends operatives back in time to save endangered species and etc. Mendoza was recruited when she was nearly burned alive or something at the tender age of five. Yay for the Spanish Inquisition.
Anyhow, now 18, Mendoza accompanies two other operatives to Tudor England, right before Elizabeth takes the throne. She falls in love with Nicholas Harpole, not-so-secret Protestant, various things happen..
Unfortunately, I was pretty much bored through the entire book. I'm not sure why. The very modern dialogue between the operatives vs. the Elizabethan dialogue gave me whiplash, I didn't care about any of the characters, and it took me forever to get through the book. I think I'm missing something. Also, I never quite connected with Mendoza.
I think a large part of the problem was that I completely didn't get the allure of Nicholas, and since a large part of the book was about the two falling in love, Mendoza's dilemma (he's a mortal, she's not), Mendoza's fears for his safety (not such a great time for Protestants), etc. To be honest, I had no idea why she was in love with Nicholas or why he liked her, and so all the worrying and angsting and etc. ended up not interesting me.
Maybe other people who like the period or time travel better would like this.
In the future, people have figured out how to time travel. Also, there's some giant conglomorate called the Company that sends operatives back in time to save endangered species and etc. Mendoza was recruited when she was nearly burned alive or something at the tender age of five. Yay for the Spanish Inquisition.
Anyhow, now 18, Mendoza accompanies two other operatives to Tudor England, right before Elizabeth takes the throne. She falls in love with Nicholas Harpole, not-so-secret Protestant, various things happen..
Unfortunately, I was pretty much bored through the entire book. I'm not sure why. The very modern dialogue between the operatives vs. the Elizabethan dialogue gave me whiplash, I didn't care about any of the characters, and it took me forever to get through the book. I think I'm missing something. Also, I never quite connected with Mendoza.
I think a large part of the problem was that I completely didn't get the allure of Nicholas, and since a large part of the book was about the two falling in love, Mendoza's dilemma (he's a mortal, she's not), Mendoza's fears for his safety (not such a great time for Protestants), etc. To be honest, I had no idea why she was in love with Nicholas or why he liked her, and so all the worrying and angsting and etc. ended up not interesting me.
Maybe other people who like the period or time travel better would like this.
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Wed, Nov. 9th, 2005 11:27 pm (UTC)