This is book 2 in The Time Corps series. I read book 1, The Clockwork Cathedral, last month when I needed some fun escapism. I enjoyed that fast-paced, creative time travel novel (my kind of comfort read) so much that I decided to try book 2. In book 1, a young woman who is a Tulane medical student in present-day New Orleans suddenly finds herself pulled through a rip in time back to 1857. The sequel features the same characters, starting in New Orleans in 1863, six years after the first book en...

The professor and his friends discover lots more about the time machine, and the multiverse that it lives in while trying to get two of them back to their original times and universes. Good stuff - enjoyed reading.

Fun

What a new way to view time travel and such fun characters to get to know. Good action and story line to puzzle out in the book.

I liked this book.

The writing was beautiful and you fell for the characters right away. The story ends, but does leave the door open for more books. I would recommend this book.

I have decided to give up on this series.It's not bad, per se- it's just complicated in the ways that time travel tends to be. My problem with time travel is that it makes plotting arbitrary; if anything can happen at any time, there's not a plot there. And unfortunately, attempts to put limits on time travel seem just as arbitrary.In this series in particular, I did not see a coherent system in which the various time- and alternate-world traveling could go on. Why some things worked and some di...

A Viking ship crewed with monkeys? Seriously?

Im ersten Teil ging es mehr um den Professor und Felicia - im zweiten stehen Hazel und Mr. Neil Grey im Vordergrund.Sechs Jahre nachdem Felicia in die falsche Zukunft geschickt wurde, kommen die Dinge wieder in Gang. Neil Grey arbeitet als angeheuerter Mörder für einen mr. March. Er reist durch Zeiten und Universen und bringt Menschen um, die ansonsten vom Gesetz verschont blieben - zum Beispiel Hazels Onkel, den Kinderschänder. Aber nachdem Neil einige Fragen zu viel gestellt hat, bemerkt er, d...

Well, a drakkar... with monkeys as crewmembers... and it folds in a cloth when you don't need it... What can I say? Superb!

Like the Mysterious Cathedral of its Predecessor Have you ever seen one of those Mechanical Theatres. The clockwork gadgets that look un-opposing but then open up to present an entire dancing/singing/whatever menagerie. Like the Cathedral of the first Time Core book. (The singing small world looking thing that welcomes you to Duloc in the first Shrek movie.)That's what the Time Core series is turning out to be like. Clockwork Cathedral is that door, the shell. In Cat's paw it begins to open up.C...

Cat's Paw continues the story from The Clockwork Cathedral and it is an excellent second book in the series.
A lot of time travels, character development, a touch of magic and an end with more open questions.

Fortunately book three - Luna Park - is available and I own a copy :-) ....