What makes me give 5 stars to a book? Because on the surface, this is another amateur effort at a time travel story, with all the attendant grammatical hiccups that plague self-published authors.

And yet it's more, because despite giving average ratings to other works by Ayres, this somehow got under my skin and kept me compelled. So yes, it could do with a proofread (not as badly as some, by a long way). yes, it's been done before. yes, it's all tied up and neatly finished, so who can say where the sequel will have to go?

But yet, all that aside, I didn't want to put it down. I enjoyed it cover to cover, so even if it's not classic literature or written in glowing prose, it was good enough for me to say it's a job well done and a story well told.