Alice Payne Arrives (Alice Payne, 1)

More like 2.45 really ... BOOK ENDS ON A CLIFFHANGER!! Where to start? This book is a Young Adults book with two instances of gratuitous swearing and main characters that aren't teenagers, but in terms of writing style, pacing, dialog, world building it's a Young Adults book. There is zero, and I DO mean zero character development, even the three main characters are little more than cardboard cut outs bobbing across a mostly empty stage. There is no explanation of the mechanics of time travel and the two major political factions that power the cobweb thin plot aren't even explained until the three quarter mark. It's a time travel book with no explanation of time travel... over all it's a half thought out short story that a more imaginative writer could have done much better. There are the good bones of a decent story here, but the author either can't or is unwilling to flesh it out.