30th Century Escape Book Analysis

30th Century Escape by Mark Kingston Levin begins in the 30th century a mile below sea level where Captain Jennifer Hero heads fifty members of a Secret Society of natural humans on a very important mission. Society consists of natural humans and Syndos who have enhanced DNA to make them stronger and physically superior but have no moral compass. Syndos have decided to wipe out the naturals and the naturals have a non-violent plan to prevent this happening by travelling back to the 27th century, when the Syndos were first created to make sure they develop a sense of morality.
Under heavy attack, Jennifer sends her team back in time to the 27th century but when she enters the time machine she does not sent herself to the same time, but goes
The rest of the novel details her experiencing living in the 21st century where she gets accepted to University and meets a wide variety of people, many of which she has a range of sexual encounters with. She looks like a girl with a similar name who disappeared with her parents when cruising on their yacht, and many of the people she meets are convinced she is the same girl that went missing. At the very end of the book it returns to the science fiction beginning and picks up on what happened with her team and the mission.
The beginning of the book was an action-packed science fiction time-travel story that was powerfully written but the rest of the book did not live up to its early promise for me. The next part detailed how she survived alone and was reasonably entertaining, but half-way through the book it became a steamy erotic novel which seemed to add nothing to the original story and left me wondering who the audience was supposed to be. I would happily have let a young teenager read the early parts but not the
then spoke with his five and daughter..” when five should be wife, and things that made no sense such as “..gold from around 1700 not Nazi gold..” when that era was pre-Nazi . However the most annoying thing about the book for me was the fact that everyone is welcoming and kind and rather one-dimensional. It is hard to believe that everyone Jennifer meets is completely accepting of having sex in groups with multiple partners. In reality there are always mean and nasty people and I felt the characters weren’t very realistic. On the positive side the book has some lovely descriptions of locations and some nice theoretical