The Time Saving Agency by Christina Engela

Overall the Time Saving Agency is a fun read which see's the 'Quantum Series' taken on an unexpected journey of time travel while also continuing the journey of it's characters seen in the previous book in the series. What ensues is a cat and mouse time travel story seeing 'Agent Scrooby' trying to track down the evil genius and escaped terrorist known as Brad Xyl who has dastardly universe destroying aspirations. Scrooby enlists the help of Bounty hunter Gary Beck and together they set out to to put Brad Xyl's plans to a halt.Īlthough Cindy Mei Winter takes more of a cameo role along with 'Fred the Arborian' in this story Cindy's journey and life as a trans-woman is briefly touched upon giving an important and positive modern spotlight on the subject. Written in a way that sometimes tributes Terry Pratchett, yet again readers will find this story quirky and clever with a style that confides in the reader.įamiliar faces Gary Beck the 'badfella' and Cindy Mei Winter return as their story together continues and while that is happening the main story arc begins to unfold from an unexpected place the fabric of time where there are Time Agents and Time Terrorists. Only two months previous were the citizens of Deanna dealing with the threat of an alien attack but now another threat of perhaps greater proportions emerges from the fabric of time, quite literally.Ĭhristina Engela has created a story that follows not only a similar concept of the previous entry into the Quantum series but one that fuses those ideas with something completely different and original. Someone somewhere was tinkering with the works, and it was up to Time Agent Scrooby - with a little help - to go back and fix it, or who knew what might happen next! Something smelled funny in the Anals of History! Things were not as they were supposed to be. Sorting that out had been… well, challenging. Yesterday Napoleon managed to dig a tunnel across the English Channel, invaded London - and everybody at the Agency ended up speaking French for a while. If they didn’t, then things would be completely different - which was why, a week ago, the American War of Independence was fought in Mexico. Things happened at a certain time in a certain way, which in a sense, is what Life was all about. Once, he’d screwed up in only a small way, and people wore those little yellow smiley faces on t-shirts for decades afterwards.

His job at the Time Saving Agency was a tough one - gazillions of lives depended on him not screwing up. The pay was good enough, but as Johnathan Scrooby decided long ago - even if he didn’t get paid for it, the thrill alone was payment enough! Then again, the TSA realized they couldn’t afford to have disgruntled employees with the power of God at their fingertips, so the pay was very, very good indeed! After all, time travel wasn’t for the faint of heart. The Time Saving Agency liked having fresh agents on the job, who had a clear mind and steady hand.

The Time Saving Agency by Christina Engela