I was lucky to get an ARC of this from Bookish First.
This was a great what if thriller! What if one man had the power to go back in time to a key spot and change the way the future was going to go. That is what Rasheed did. He did not want all the fighting and violence and so he made sure that the Ottoman Empire won the key battle at Vienna. And thus was born the new future where the Ottomans conquered and controlled a vast majority of Europe. Unfortunately by the modern times, it was failing too, even with the wildly changed history.
The first part of the book was pretty interesting and set things up nicely but I was not totally hooked until about halfway through the book when Nisreen and her husband learned the secrets of time travel themselves. I really liked Nisreen, she was a strong character and even in the world she lived in, she made herself heard. Kamal, on the other hand took a bit of time to become likeable, though by the end I was totally rooting for him too.
This was a good story and I am glad that I live in the world I do, even with its own issues, rather than under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
This was a great what if thriller! What if one man had the power to go back in time to a key spot and change the way the future was going to go. That is what Rasheed did. He did not want all the fighting and violence and so he made sure that the Ottoman Empire won the key battle at Vienna. And thus was born the new future where the Ottomans conquered and controlled a vast majority of Europe. Unfortunately by the modern times, it was failing too, even with the wildly changed history.
The first part of the book was pretty interesting and set things up nicely but I was not totally hooked until about halfway through the book when Nisreen and her husband learned the secrets of time travel themselves. I really liked Nisreen, she was a strong character and even in the world she lived in, she made herself heard. Kamal, on the other hand took a bit of time to become likeable, though by the end I was totally rooting for him too.
This was a good story and I am glad that I live in the world I do, even with its own issues, rather than under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.