Great concept and generally a well written book.

Now for some downsides. I understand the need to deliver information to the reader about the time period, but for most times that happened in this book I felt I was reading a history textbook and it really detracted from the novel as a whole. I also disliked the cliche of everyone finding their "soulmate". Every major character seemed to fall in love at first sight with someone else in the novel. Ugh. But, I like time travel novels so I have a soft spot for them when I pick one up to read.