by Dee Shulman
Stand back - I'm doing science! Well, I'm not, but the characters in this novel do. Virology and String Theory...I don't really understand them, but I know of them.Speculative fiction often requires a hefty dose of suspension of disbelief, but Fever requires too much. Time travel, and "Parallon" (wh...
Oh thank goodness, it's the first of a trilogyRead my full review here: http://courtreadsandreviews.blogspot.ca/2012/05/review-fever.html
I was so excited for this book, and in the end it was a bit of a letdown. I couldn't get into it at all - I think the chopping and changing of first POV to 3rd POV and all the different perspectives just made it more unfocused and hard to follow. I just didn't get into it as much as I wanted to!
A little predictable, other than that, good.Book 1 is Fever. Book 2 is Delirium. Where do these titles come from???
As soon as I read the blurb for Fever I knew I had to read it, come on - a time travel story revolving around a 21st century girl and a Roman Gladiator - how could I resist? I have to admit I've not read many time travel stories before and definitely none involving a gladiator so I was curious to se...
Just couldn't even finish. Fever seemed quite cool in theory but it was boring and tedious and it was a romance, right, but our two protags didn't even meet till we were three-quarters of the way in. The science was overly explained. I would have much rathered a silly little fantasy where it didn't ...
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