I liked this a lot. It had a similar premise to the middle grade series[book:Found|1675216], where people are taken from history, when they would have died anyway (so there shouldn't be a change in the timeline). The Netflix show Travelers was sort of similar (except those bodies were taken over by time travelers). Here, a few people are plucked from history and brought to the present, each has a "bridge" to help them. This book features Gore picked up from 1847 and his bridge .... I guess we never actually get her name? She's the MC, but being told in first person, it's all "I" and no one says her name throughout? It wasn't something I was even aware of until I came to write this review (that she was "unnamed" ... like in A Handmaid's Tale or The Book of the Unnamed Midwife). 

I went primarily with the audio, but had the Kindle copy too. There were a LOT of words I wanted to jot down, look up, just remember being said (anodyne, miscegenation, perspicacity, hectoring, excoriation, cerulean, quotidian, cacophony, plethora, anachronism, idiom, panoply) ... phrases: apropos of nothing, feeling poorly, jury rigged, god of bones and sinew. 

Looking at the Table of Contents in the Kindle copy ... it held more than the audio TOC. The audio would say ...
Part 1
Part 1 - Chapter 1
... and this went on for all 10 chapters. In Kindle
Chapter I
Chapter 1
Chapter II
Chapter 2
... one Roman numerals, one traditional ... which, the Roman numerals were from Gore in 1847. Nice touch! I likey!  The regular chapters, in the "present" were in past tense, whereas the past (Roman numerals) was in present tense. Both 1st person. In audio, two narrators, male for the 1847 storyline and female for the "present day" ...

Gore was a real person in history who had been on the fatal Franklin Expedition. I've actually read more about that and other arctic expeditions than one might think. Not sure why, but I have. I think that little connection made this more interesting to me.   I also enjoy time travel, and here, the thought of someone from the past being "awakened" in the future ... seeing what is now the norm, is just an interesting thing to ponder. 

There were lots of things to ponder ... lots of "book club discussion questions" and there WERE questions included at the back of the Kindle book, in addition to an author's note and a Q&A. I appreciate extras like this. 

There was proFanity (x33) and some sex ... I'm not remembering how explicit. Not "steamy" but not totally closed door either.