Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Time Lost
SERIES: Out of Time #2
AUTHOR: C.B Lewis
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 384 pages
RELEASE DATE: July 29, 2016
BLURB:
What began with a dead intruder and a missing scientist quickly becomes the most perplexing case of Detective Inspector Jacob Ofori’s career. Nothing about it makes sense, from the incredibly advanced technology found on the intruder to the scientist’s mysterious workplace, the Temporal Research Institute. Jacob’s gut tells him the TRI is hiding something, and the questions keep piling up: Who would abduct Sanders? What is the strange gate in his basement laboratory? How does it connect to similar gates in the TRI?
TRI engineer Kit Rafferty only wanted one night with the sexy older policeman, but Kit’s mouth tends to run away with him when he gets excited, and nothing gets him more excited than cutting-edge tech—like the intruder’s cybernetic eye. Suddenly Kit is pulled into the investigation—and into a relationship that could jeopardize both of their lives. Kit hates lying to Jacob, but he cannot reveal what really goes on at the TRI—time travel. Faced with time-jumping criminals but unable to share that knowledge with Jacob, Kit turns to a man who knows time travel firsthand: Janos Nagy.
REVIEW:
I was thoroughly surprised and delighted by this book. Surprised because this book was so much more than I expected. I’ve read a few time traveling books in my day and sometimes they leave me leery of others. But this…just wow. It deals with so much more than time traveling. It’s a mystery, a murder mystery and so much more. The characters were ….there is so much to them. Complex, surprising. The writing was spot on. I really loved it.
I will say, I did not get to read book 1 first. I will be going back to read it for sure, but there was enough explained in this book I was totally out of my league. I DO recommend reading it first but if you can’t, it’s not too confusing. But keep in mind, this IS a continuing story. Same universe of characters. The main characters are different, but all from book 1 are back. Or so it seems, anyway. Also, the main characters from book 1 are in this book and there is some talk about their history and it is fairly violent. It’s not fully described in this book, but enough you know what’s up. So if you have triggers, just be careful.
Kit’s world is about to be turned upside down. With only being an engineer, he feels like he’s left out of a lot of things going on in the office. And this time, he’s right. He’s been an ‘underling’ of the head honcho, Dr. Sanders, for three years. With his abilities at coding and engineering, he’s about a bloody genius at what he does. Some of what Sanders is supposed to be working Kit works on as well. But Kit just found out he didn’t know as much as he thought. Sanders is missing, his home a bloody mess (literally), and his only son found locked in a safe room. DI Jacob Ofori is like a dog with a bone, and he’s going to get to the bottom of this. Each time Jacob goes to TRI, he knows stuff is being hidden/omitted from him. He decides to try to get to know Kit, at first, to get some info out of him, bit it quickly turns into a passionate night. As Jacob digs further, more evidence is being revealed. And it’s no longer a missing case. It’s murder. When Kit accidentally reveals a little more, several important people know it’s only a matter of time before everything is out in the open. Especially the info about Janos. Jacob knows he can be in deep trouble with his relationship with Kit as well. When the shit finally hits the fan, secrets are revealed and and several relationships may not survive. And it may be too late for others.
Man, while I was reading this, I was on edge the whole damn time. I didn’t know how to feel for Kit or Jacob. Both are up to their eyeballs in their work and this murder. Jacob can’t tell Kit about what he’s got going on really, especially at it’s at Kit’s job, and Kit can’t tell Jacob what’s going on at work. It’s a catch-22 for them. Both had to crack a bit. Mainly on Kit’s side, because Jacob had to do his job. But then, when a lot of the reasons are revealed for the secrecy, Jacob’s in a tough, tough position. Some things can just never come to light.
Their attraction to each other didn’t help. Jacob knew his job was on the line with messing with Kit, but he couldn’t let the man go. And Kit didn’t want to lie to Jacob or have the case be the only reason Jacob came by. It’s a almost an impossible situation. Something somewhere has to give. And it does. (You’ll have to red to find out what. Hehe)
I can’t stress enough what a great book this is. So, so good. It’s a page turner. And I can’t wait to see how this series ends.
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