The Quantum Curators and the Enemy Within by Eva St. JohnMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I enjoyed the first book in this series (thank you Amazon Prime), it was like a budget Just One Damned Thing After Another, or at least it looked like it might be. The basic premise is that there are two alternate Earths: Alpha Earth in which the African nations overthrew the Romans, this has developed along ore peaceful lines, favouring science and development over war; and Beta Earth (ours) which is more primitive and violent, but also produces greater works of art. Alpha has developed time travel to Beta where it specialises in rescuing priceless works of art before they are destroyed/lost forever.
Julius Strathclyde was a Beta Cambridge Professor, academic, and researcher who got drawn into the Alpha world when his best friend was murdered over a priceless Faberge egg and he became acquainted with Neith Salah, an Alpha quantum curator. At the end of the first book (view spoiler).
This book starts some months after the first book ended. Julius is now training/studying to be a Quantum Curator, Neith is mourning the loss of her partner and blaming her former best friend Ramin. The Director of the quantum curators, Sam, decides to pair Julius up with Neith, partly because none of the other trainees wants to be his partner, and partly to get Neith back into the fold. But it seems as though someone wants to kill Julius, and there is a mysterious group on Alpha plotting to take over the Quantum Field for their own purposes.
As the title suggests, this book is concerned with uncovering (some of) the plots on Alpha Earth, although it seems that there is more than one group up to no good. Although there is some time-travel (mainly as part of Julius' training) this feels more centred on Alpha.
What I liked about the first book was that Julius was extremely good-looking, but totally oblivious to it, and an academic whereas Neith was the gun-toting (well stunner), athletic, special forces type. Well, after their splicing incident and because of all his quantum curator training, Julius is now also ultra-fit and able to fight which kind of makes Neith redundant.
It all got a bit confused with different plots and plotters, I also felt that this was a very different book from the first book, maybe I wanted more world-building and character establishment before we launched into conspiracies, you know a few light-hearted time-travel adventures?
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