Not much of a fan of this one, it's a weak 3 stars at best. I'm game for the world exploration, but continually running into every historically notable person of the era is a bit weak. The vampire Matthew becomes even crazier possessive and everyone shrugs it off, "oh well, you how they are, those vampires" when the behavior would fall firmly into the "manipulative controlling boyfriend" zone in so many cases. Not a lot happens in this book! Diana learns how to behave in the era, they move around between a few cities and hunt for things, and then it's six hundred pages later and it's time to go. I enjoyed the first book a lot more. Not so sure about continuing to the third after this one.