A book that I found had a very good concept and theme to it. I liked that we had unreliable characters and a story that was fantastical and unique. However, there wasn't much dialogue and the writing style was pretty choppy.

A lot of the things I liked was how our main character wasn't a love struck girl. She was an empowering women who had struggles and many things taken from her, but she knew what she wanted and she wanted adventure. I liked that she was on a mission.

Overall it was an okay book but over time I got bored and tired from reading very similar wording and moments where dialogue was key but not present.

This was great!! Very unique and original history remix book. If your a fan of alternate history books grab this one !

Oh my gosh, I didn't expect to fall in love with this book as much as I did! I was taken with it from the beginning to the very end.
This takes place in a universe where groups from cultures around the earth settle on different planets throughout the universe. This fact becomes forgotten until the 1500's when the information is discovered, and humans again step out to explore the galaxy.

The story then becomes one of the colonizers and the colonized. It has much the same Orient/Occident relationship as our history does, with one group belittling the other culture, looking down on the people, and harming them for personal gain. In attempt to locate more resources and increase individual wealth, explorers go out to these worlds in hopes of ending up with a fortune. When the expedition Faith and Felicity are on discovers one of the original groups living and thriving on the planet, plans are made to utilize what they have. The group living on this planet are descended from the Jomon culture, and those who have just arrived are from the US and Britain. We see attempts at diplomacy from some of the Western explorers, but all the while they view the inhabitants as "savages," being less civilized than Western Earth culture, ignorant to their resources, and therefore, undeserving of anything. And there are others who would skip the diplomacy and eradicate these people.

Felicity awakens alone one day with no memories since an attack at a diplomatic even she and her family were attending. She is taken in by the father and son who find her, and taken back to Victorian life. It’s a lifestyle she finds oppressing, though aspects of it eventually take hold in her. After seven years, she’s finally able to return with Lord Klark’s in hopes of discovering what happened to her memories. Of course, she was only able to convince them to let her go with the argument that she’s the only one who knows the area and the people/culture (who are all assumed to be dead). Despite having the knowledge, her Victorian male travel companions ignore her and talk around her at every chance. It is only Merriweather who takes her at all seriously, and even then, he’s largely oblivious to much of what she says. When they reunite with the indigenous of the planet, she explicitly tips him off to some of the tricks and pranks they play on him, but at the end the journey, he’s only then figuring it out.

My suspicions of what happened begin early in the book, and little things here and there, slowly throughout the book, continue to confirm my suspicion. The way these clues are placed is ideal, keeping me eager to read on to discover if I am correct. And, as any good reveal, though my suspicions were correct, there were delightful bonus twists that could not have been predicted. Felicity’s interactions with the indigenous population are all wonderful, as she transforms from the Victorian values that were imposed upon her, to relaxing into the culture she had embraced years before. It’s as she is embracing the culture she feels more at home with that she feels able to be more trusting of others around her; but at the same time, she faces the horrors of her peoples’ colonialism. The reader feels her feelings deeply, making each moment all the more impactful.

The ending falls into place beautifully and conveniently, but perhaps too conveniently? After all, there will be a sequel – and I’m eager to read it!