I'm not very far in yet, maybe 20 pages, but I'm liking it. So far I've been introduced to Sir Richard Burton (not the one married to Elizabeth Taylor!), a Neanderthal, and Alice of Alice in Wonderland fame. And the alien that ended civilization as we know it. I've read that this is one of those sci-fi series that people LOVE, which may be true, but so far the writing is kind of amaturish. There's some weird expository stuff, such as (paraphrasing here), "Hey, see those big stone mushroom-looking things in the distance? They're spaced about a mile apart and they each have 700 divots on them." You've just been reincarnated, along with everyone else, EVER, and you're counting holes on a rock? THAT's what you do? We'll see if I want to continue the series . . .

Final review: You know what this is? It's fan-fic. Fan-fic about Richard Francis Burton (I know his middle name because it was mentioned a million times in the book). And it's poorly- written fan-fic, at that. And I'm pretty sure that Richard Burton is a Mary Sue.