This was a good book to rediscover how much I loved this world. 

I liked learning more about how vampires are made, what the rules are, etc. The pairing of the two storylines of both main characters and how they were both turned and the story of Marcus and its historical significance was interesting, but not super compelling. 

It was nice to check in with Matthew and Diana and see where they and the twins are at in their lives though. 

The audiobook narrator did an excellent job! I’m glad I chose to read the audiobook! 

Time's Convert is an intriguing prequel and sequel to Deborah Harkness All Souls trilogy that, at times, it was difficult to keep a track of the narrative with it jumping between Marcus Whitmore's backstory and the present for Diana Bishop and Matthew de Claremont and their children and Phoebe Taylor, a human warmblood and Marcus' mate as she becomes a vampire.

It does not capture my imagination in the same way that A Discovery of Witches did, however it was still worth reading just to get the history of Matthew's son, Marcus and how they become fledgling vampires! 

I Loved the first three books in the trilogy and very much enjoyed the revisiting the characters however, the editing was off on this book. And unfortunately, it repeatedly took me out of the magic of this story. 

I was really looking forward to this book since Marcus is one of my favourites from the original DoW trilogy, but this book is a bit of a slog to get through, and mostly underwhelming. 

First of all, it’s more like 3 stories in one that bounce around the following POVs:
1 - Phoebe and her journey as a baby vamp
2 - Marcus and his backstory/history through the American & French Revolutions, as both warmblood and vampire 
3 - Diana and the trials raising her Bright Born twins

Though there is attempted cohesion between the 3 storylines, it’s not executed well. Each perspective would have benefited as their own novella with a bit more fleshing out (separate from my next point), because they just seem to go nowhere. 

Secondly, this book suffers from almost too much detail of non-importance. I understand that Ms. Harkness is a historian and revels in describing European history, but it gets to the point of rambling sometimes that doesn’t lend to plot or character development. 

Thirdly, what is up with Phoebe?! I felt a disservice to her characterization was made - I don’t remember her being so petulant, and making her so for the sake of being a “baby vamp” missed the mark. 

Time's Convert is a bit of a spin off from the main three books in the All Souls Trilogy. While I was happy to see Diana and Matthew, they take a secondary role to the story of Marcus and Phoebe. This book was pretty good, but wasn't as good as the rest of the All Souls books. I just wasn't as invested in Phoebe and Marcus's story. I also don't find Phoebe all that likeable. If you want to delve more into those characters or into Harkness' version of the vampire making process, then it's worth a read. Or if you really enjoy American and French Revolution history.