Time travel makes my head hurt, all the …this happened in the future, which is really the past of the character's timeline, which is different from the chronological timeline of the story, and far from the timeline of the peanut butter and bubblegum operated shape-shifting time machine that can skip around like so many blocks in a hop-scotch.
But I love my time-traveling main characters, like Dr. Who, and Matteo Hudson is right up there.
Author Liesl Shurtliff navigates it all expertly, and we finally (kinda?) get an idea of who Matteo Hudson is and why Captain Vincent hates him so much.
Only this time, Captain Vincent has the Aeturnum, because he got there first, and he now has the ability to pull people out of time, blast their timelines to bits and prevent them from ever reforming. At least, that's what he's been able to do with some folks -- not the Hudsons, not yet. Just Napoleon, and a few other key figures. Which is all in the past.
So when the Hudsons "escape" from him, they find there's no where to escape to -- their world has already been altered. How long before they forget each other, much less all the ins and outs of the timeline they came from?
Matt holds the answer, of course, he always has. I won't spoil how he vanquishes Captain Vincent once and for all, but know it was a super satisfying wrap-up to the series! Enjoy!
