West

History Interrupted, Book 1

De: Lizzy Ford

Narrado por: Lillian Yves

If you could change history, would you?

College graduate Josephine "Josie" Jackson answers "yes" to the question on a survey while visiting the Old West tourist town of Tombstone. The next morning, she wakes up in Indian Territory in the 1840s, where she's given a mission to complete before she can return to her time: to reset history, and prevent the deaths of hundreds of thousands over the next century, by convincing the man responsible for kindling the war between settlers and natives to stay home on the day he's supposed to start the war.

But someone is hunting down time travelers and killing them. Three other women have been sent back to the same time period with Josie's mission. When she stumbles upon what happened to them, she realizes the chances of her getting out of the past alive are not good.

To survive, she'll have to trust the person who's there to stop her from changing history, someone who has every reason to distrust her and only one reason to help her - to save her from the mysterious man who sent her back in time to start with.

©2014 Lizzy Ford (P)2017 Lizzy Ford

Loved this book

This book was great. The voice actor reading it was pleasant to listen to and brought great depth to the book. I look forward to the next book.

West: History Interrupted

This is a really fun book. It has lots of action and adventure as well as mystery and danger. Josie thinks Carter is joking about time travel, because it's only on tv right? Then she wakes up in the past. Of course their is a lot to get used to. And she is not sure who to trust including Carter and Taylor who is the local sheriff. The book has some great characters in it. And their is a few surprises at the end. One you may see coming. But the rest.... I felt a bit like Josie I was a bit sad at the end. This was a fast listen it really draws you in and you don't want to stop until it's done. I can't wait for the rest of the series to come out on audio! Great series with nice narration!

I was given this audio in exchange for an honest review.

WEST

I was intrigued when I read the blurb, I love time travel stories and I think it is a good start to the series. Not sure I would call it a romance, more like fantasy/scifi, even though it has a little bit of romance in it. Interesting mix of suspense, drama, old west & scifi. Josie made for a pretty good heroine the way she survived being thrown back into time despite having al the obstacles thrown in her way. I wish Taylor was not erased from history though. Lost one star because of the major cliffhanger ending and no warning.
My first time listening to Ms. Yves and she has a pleasant voice, well-suited for Josie's character. With more voice variations, more emotive presentation and better paragraph breaks would have been a 5-star listen for me. The style used would have been perfect for a more sedate story.

I received this free review copy audio book at my request and this review is voluntary. 

An amazing travel to the Old West

During a visit to an Old West tourist attraction, Josie is requested by a man named Carter to fill in a survey in exchange for some money to help her pay her studies. Later on both go out for a drink and Carter tells her about the need to change the past in order to prevent a great massacre. Half drunk, Josie accepts, just to suddenly find herself appear in the 1940s. Why does everybody seem to know her? Will she have what it takes to change the course of history?

Despite the fact that this book is categorized as Romance, it is not, or it is not its main genre. This is about time travel, not very sci-fy but more in a fantastic way, like Doctor Who, show that is mentioned several times throughout the book, as one of Josie's favorites. What I mean about more fantastic is that there is not even a mere attempt to explain anything of what happens in a scientific way, and I almost laughed at the fact that Josie was going to get a vaccine that would cover any past, present, and future disease known to man. It is kind of ludicrous, but this is one of the concessions we usually give to the Time Travel genre, especially when it is inspired by Doctor Who.

Josie's real mission is unknown to her and us, and Lizzy Ford built up the intrigue in a very smart way, giving us pieces here and there, while also tricking us to think what she wanted. This has worked very well, and this was a book I couldn't put down, since I needed to know why some things were like they were presented and how we could be deceived.

Even though I think Josie was a bit too naive at the beginning, I was able to connect to her later on. The story is written in first person from her point of view, and as she is the only character, apart from Carter, from our time, it was easy to follow her train of thought and understand her motivations. Apart from her, the rest of characters were not very developed, but this did not stop some of them from being very interesting. I especially liked the two Indian twins.

I said that this was not a Romance book, but there is romance in it. I am not sure about the need of it, and for me it felt a bit forced, but I guess the romance and sex scenes will be appreciated by those who expect some romance in this book. Somehow I wanted to know Taylor better, and I think the ending would have felt a bit stronger for me if he would have been a bit more developed.

What did not work very well for me was Lillian Yves narration. Yves gave a clear and emotive narration, but I found some little issues that were distracting when put together. First, Yves tended to introduce pauses in the middle of sentences, like reading in slow bursts, and then the pauses between sentences felt like artificially shortened (probably during the editing part). This caused that some pauses between sentences were even shorter than the pauses within sentences, which gave the narration a robotic feel. If it was not for the expressive narration by Yves, it would have sounded exactly like Text-To-Speech. I find it weird that nobody has mentioned this on any review, since this bothered me from beginning to end. Another minor issue was that all voices sounded similar to the ear, and this coupled with the previous issue, made following dialogs difficult, since the shortened pauses between sentences and paragraphs did not make it clear when a character stopped talking and another one started.

All in all, it was a wonderful audiobook, and the tension and the intrigue were so well built that I couldn't stop listening. I am looking forward to the next in the series.

I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Lizzy Ford. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.

Fantastic time travel story!

Amazing storyline and plot in this 21st century time travel story. Deception, misconception, and romance all wrapped up with sorrow and Sci-fi. Definitely looking forward to book two!

“I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.