A Different Voice

   k1w1bob

Codename Athena

Another great novel enjoyed reading couldn't put it down until finished
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   John

Very interesting book

I have read this book twice now as well as all the rest in this long series. This is definitely the best of the series and it combines sci-fi, history, and world politics. Great read.
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   John Blomquist

Great Book

Review on 2/11/2020 My book reviews go from 1 to 10 with 10 being the highest. I give this book an 8. An 8 is very good and I have rated very few books as high as an 8. The hero, Nancy LaPlante, Is tremendously unlikely. Also, the security around Nancy, after she proved she was from the future, was non-existant. When Nancy was finally moved to London, the security of her existance and her physical security was a joke. To the author, Michael Poulin. I noticed this book was translated and adapted from a French novel. I suggest you hire a native English (not British) speaker to read and edit your book. Examples: "Said softly Nancy" should be "Said Nancy softly". "Me and Mark are going on the raid." should be "Mark and I are going on the raid." A rule of thumb for that last example is to leave out the name of the other person "Mark". You would never say "Me is going on the raid." Instead, you would say "I am going on the raid." By the way, you always name the other person first "Mark" and yourself last. People who name themselves first in a sentence are putting an emphasis on their own name. There are many grammatical mistakes in the book including just using the wrong word. Like Travis Siegel, I found myself pausing and editing the book constantly including doing "search and replace".
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   Travis Siegel

Excellent story, poor editing

Once again, I find myself in a poor position. This book was an excellent one. The problem is, this was supposedly a corrected edition, and yet, there were more errors in every single chapter than I see in entire books on a regular basis. The best one that actually made me laugh was the word planification. Seriously, I like this author's work, but the shear number of errors is incredible. I even had to give up and edit the files at one point, just to remove some seriously irritating errors, just so I could read the damned thing. I strongly believe that if the author can get a decent (it doesn't even have to be a good one, just a decent) editor to go over this book, and fix as many of the verbiage problems, and the wrong verb tenses, as possible, this would be a book deserving of a science fiction award. It's an excellent story, it's just been translated extremely poorly. I can't imagine there are too many scifi fans that wouldn't enjoy this one if it was cleaned up and presented in a proper manner. Time travel is one of the mainstays of science fiction, and the story behind this one is really really good (well, until it crossed over into the metaphysical anyway towards the end), and it's hard to find a really good time travel story that doesn't short itself on one or another time period during the telling, though I think this one does an admirable job of doing just that. There are several more in the series, and I suppose I'll give them a look, but no matter how much I enjoy these tales, if the editing is as poorly done on the others as this first one was, I'm not sure if I'll have the patience to read them all.
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   Tony Calder

I generally enjoyed the story, although the translation issues - sentence structure and tenses mostly - were a regular distraction to my ability to fully immerse myself in the story. The story idea (introducing modern tech into WWII) was fun and reasonably well-handled, though certainly not original; the characters were ok but not very nuanced. Overall 3/5.
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