22. A Ripple in Time: An Historical Novel of Survival by Victor Zugg

#1 A Ripple in Time

listened on Chirp
narrated by Sean William Doyle
Unabridged audio (7:25)
2019
350 pgs.
Adult Time Travel/Survival
Finished 3/17/2021
Goodreads rating: 4.23 - 1256 ratings
My rating: 4.5
Setting: Mostly early 1700's Charleston, SC/coast

First line/s:  "The PA system blared. "Final call for Flight seventy-three with service to Charlotte, boarding at Gate 5.  This is your final call.' "

My comments: An interesting take on time travel!  This one was fun to read because it had a lot of basic information about survival like gear needed and trying to put yourself into the right period of history with only what you have.  Clothing of the period was interesting and the last 10% of the book (spoiler alert!) trying to get back, -- was really fun.  The actual ending made me grin.  There's a sequel, will try to find it on audio.

Goodreads synopsis:    A struggle for survival in a time long past.
          It started as a routine Miami to Charlotte flight for the passengers, crew, and Federal Air Marshal Stephen Mason. But a freak storm over the Atlantic propels the airliner unexplainably back in time to the early 18th century. They find themselves on the sparsely populated coast of the Carolina Colony. Charles Town is the only English settlement of any size in the area. It’s an inhospitable place of vast plantations, slavery, hostile natives, tall ships, and marauding pirates.
          Finding a way back, if that’s even feasible, is the least of their worries. These unintended time travelers quickly find themselves ill-equipped for hardships and dangers not faced for centuries. Perils loom at every turn in this world of loss, anguish, filth, and sweat.
          Foreigners in their own land, can they survive and adapt? Is it even possible for these modern transplants to carve an existence from this foul and odorous place in time?
          Stephen Mason will find a way or die trying.