The Anubis Gates

from Amelia_Smith

This was quite a good book, though maybe not as awesome as I'd hoped it would be. It mixed horror, adventure, and time travel. Two things really bothered me while reading it, though. I found it idiotic that the main character guy (by whatever name) took so freakin' long to figure out that Jacky w...

from JackMassa

Quirky, imaginative and fabulously unpredictable Grand Guignol science fantasy. I loved the epic scope, the sinister villains, the ingenious blending of tropes: Romantic literary figures, time travel, Egyptian magic, Dickensian underworld Londoners, gypsies, body-snatching. Think Doctor Who meets...

from RandyStafford

My reactions to reading this novel in 2002. Spoilers follow. This was an elaborate, intricate, action-packed mélange of Byron and Coleridge's poetry, secret societies in Jacobean and Georgian London, time travel, lycanthropy, transvestism (the typical young girl disguised as a boy though, here, e...

from galacticus

I am not a fan of time travel adventures but this book is the exception. This is one of my favorite all time Sci-Fi books. It is definitely not steam punk. Much like his work On Stranger Tides, the origin of Pirates of the Caribbean, this book is populated by the most enticing characters. The pre...

from cameling

If you were given an opportunity to travel back in time, to meet someone you've been fascinated with and on whom there is very little documented information, would you jump at the chance to do so? What if you were inadvertently left behind and didn't make it back to present day? What would you do...