Not for people who love animals or children

I listened to the first book and got 80% through the second hoping for improvement before I gave up in disgust and stopped listening Warning Spoilers ahead. Where to begin? The main protagonist is a whiny milquetoast character who chooses to return to the past to assuage her man's ego despite the innumerable risks to her unborn child, lets a horse lie suffering while she needs a hug rather than demanding someone ends it's suffering and is fine with having sex in a room shared with a wide awake eight year old child. She's also not very bright, not thinking to bring some basic things with her to the past that would help with disguise: Hair dye, contact lens fluid, antiseptics, etc. But here is the worst: The auther often goes into long, detailed descriptions of horrific animal cruelty, and repeats all the brutal human punishments and nauseum. Just how often do we need to read a description of the same public execution methods? How many descriptions of sadistic pedophilia? Then there was the gratuitous description of a corpse's desectration. Finally, there is the sheer laziness in doing any research. Arabian horses are not large powerful horses: They are relatively small. Logic issues: How would a 20th century woman instantly know how to ride side saddle? They had been in use since the middle ages, right up to the 1920s.

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