Jan is a brilliant girl who was raised by her parents to excel at everything
she does. She manages to find a way to go back in time, and she decides to
go back to the time of King Edward III of England in the Middle Ages.
In the meantime, Simon Peter and his son, Ethelred,
who live in the Middle Ages, are introduced. They are told by a Gypsy that
Ethelred's life will be forever changed by somebody from a land called
Ohio. Jan arrives, just as the Gypsy foretells, and has very little
trouble convincing Ethelred, King Edward III and his court of who she is
and her mission, which is to modernize the science and medicine of the
time. And she is off to change the world as they know it.
It
took a very long time to get absorbed into the story. It wasn't very funny,
and since it's subtitled "a time travel comedy," it was a bit of a let down. Not
being a Medieval scholar, it was a little hard to believe that Jan would
be so easily and readily accepted and not burned at the stake as a
heretic and witch, as was the case in those times. The story isn't very
long, but it dragged on. It's broken into
many small chapters, seeming choppy. The chapters jumped from one place to the next, more like anecdotes rather
than complete chapters. However, the use of show tunes was a pleasant surprise.
Liz Kingsbury McKeown is from Minnesota. She began her career as a writer for Shockwave, a science fiction comedy radio show on
KFAI, Minneapolis-Saint Paul. Liz interviews independent authors for Mobius. To learn more, connect with her on Twitter.
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