★★☆☆☆ | Fantasy | Digital | Borrow | StoryGraph | Goodreads
This novel had all the ingredients for a terrific story: a strong, conflicted female protagonist, a menacing Nazi villain, Narnia-like magic, time travel, all set in wartime Britain. Yet, the execution missed the mark for me. Too many inconsistencies with the main character to be believable; a weak time travel mechanism, and an unsatisfying ending. The prose often felt overwritten and indulgent. I’m fine with sex in novels, but I didn’t enjoy how this male author described the sexual obsessions of the leading female character. It felt wrong to me. It was a slog to finish.