Weighing Shadows

By: Lisa Goldstein

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

A new time-traveling fantasy from National Book Award winner Lisa Goldstein.

Ann Decker fixes computers for a living, and in the evenings she passes the time sharpening her hacking skills. It's not a very interesting life, but she gets by - until one day she's contacted with a job offer for a company called Transformations Incorporated. None of her coworkers has ever heard of it before, and when Ann is finally told what the company does, she can hardly believe it: TI has invented technology to travel in time.

Soon Ann is visiting a matriarchy in ancient Crete and then a woman mathematician at the Library of Alexandria. But Transformations Incorporated remains shrouded in mystery, and when Ann finally catches her breath, there are too many troubling questions still unanswered. Who are Transformations Incorporated, and what will they use this technology to gain? What ill effects might going back in time have on the present day? Is it really as harmless as TI says?

When a coworker turns up dead, Ann's superiors warn her about a covert group called Core who are out to sabotage the company. Something just isn't right, but before she has time to investigate, Ann is sent to a castle in the south of France, nearly a thousand years in the past. As the armies of the Crusade arrive to lay siege and intrigue grows among the viscount's family, Ann will discover the startling truth - not just about the company that sent her there but also about her own past.

©2015 Lisa Goldstein (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

Not sure where this book came from or was going to

Just couldn’t get there and thought about not finishing the book but kept on, hoping for more suspense or story or plot or something. I generally like books with time travel but with this one I kept waiting for it to be Something,- anything but just a lot of words.

unremarkable and ridiculous

characters and plot were unbelievable and stupid, even for time travellers. could've been better.

Not very good

I struggled to finish it. I got lost a lot on the story and feel like there were a lot of plot holes that weren't explained or that were supposed to mean a lot on the story but at the end they didn't mean anything. It was a good idea but not very engaging. I honestly check every few minutes to see how many minutes were left.

Overall enjoyable

It was an enjoyable book. The story was well thought out and gave room for more story in the future while nicely wrapping up the story in this particular book. The only thing that really grated on my nerves was some of the pronunciations the narrator used (not the words that were made up just for use in the story) as well as the fact that she made the characters sound like they were drunk...or high...or stupid...or all 3. But other than that, I really enjoyed it.

I am about to return this.

Time travel stories are among my very favorites, and at first this one seemed to have promise. But it all falls apart with the first foray into the past. It’s not believable at all, and the performance is overblown with a ‘smarmy’ feel to it. I am shutting it off at chapter 8, I just can’t take any more.

I respect the hard work that goes into both writing and reading as audio, and I hat to have to be so harsh… but it’s awful.