Review: A Remedy In Time

A Remedy In Time by Jennifer Macaire
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Robin Johnson is a scientist who has made a study of typhoid. The year is 3377, the world is very different and is being ravaged by a deadly variety of typhoid which is 100% fatal. When time-travelling scientists believe the strain has somehow been brought forward from the last Ice Age Robin is hand-picked to be sent back 12,000 years to bring back samples that might help to create a vaccine.

But things rapidly go downhill. Robin's companion, the survival specialist dies almost as soon as they arrive in the past, apparently killed by the implant designed to dissolve any evidence of the future, an implant which was not supposed to trigger until after they had returned to the present. When Robin reviews her companion's backpack, she is surprised by what he has (and hasn't) brought with him but she soon discovers that he was not what he seemed to be. Now she must fend for herself until she is rescued, fighting off Sabre-toothed Tigers, Mammoths and other extinct creatures.

I see that Jennifer Macaire has written several other time travel novels, I'm not sure whether this is a spin-off series or a continuation of an existing series, but it was easy to read as a stand-alone novel. I liked that Robin had all the accoutrements of her modern life in the Ice Age, her medbot and her floating screen.

Can Robin survive long enough to gather the data to create a vaccine?

I liked the cover art, reminded me of Jodi Taylor's books, so when I saw the endorsement from Jodi I had to request an ARC, good job because I bloody loved this, I don't want to spoil the story by giving away anything more, suffice to say the Ice Age bores me to tears and dinosaurs the same, yet this was poignant, dramatic, intriguing and yet (despite the subject matter) totally believable.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

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