Time travelers never die

This book was incredibly fun to read. The author definitely had more fun with the time travel trope than most others do. Rather than going back to one point in time, this book visited basically every major point in history. And of course they used their time travel device to their fullest ability. Go back in time and it's raining? No point in staying there, go ahead an hour and the rain will be gone! About to get into a sticky situation? Zip back home and return a few minutes later!

I was conflicted on whether to give this a 5 star rating. The only reason I didn't was, although a satisfactory ending, I was expecting something else. I had a feeling the author was foreshadowing something different earlier in the book and was surprised when it didn't come to pass.

I'm a huge McDevitt fan. This wasn't his best book. There are implausibilities that seem (to a reader, outside the creative process) to be the result of laziness, not difficulty. There isn't a huge point: We aren't really looking for dad, we aren't rooting for the potential lovers, we aren't rooting for the government's reasearch to be exposed and put down -- it's just a story about two guys with personal time machines. It's a GOOD story about two guys with personal time machines, but it isn't anything more, and it could have been.