Eva St. John

St. John, Eva. The Quantum Curators and the Missing Codex. Quantum Curators No. 3. Kindle, 2021.
Missing Codex is a good wrap up for this slight but entertaining trilogy. The stakes are raised in Alpha Egypt, a city in a universe that took out Julius Caesar early, and left Egypt as a world power that lasted into the 21st century. Somewhere there is a missing document by an alternate DaVinci that explains how to hop between elements of the multiverse without a bunch of cumbersome machinery. Some nefarious types may already know how to do it. Can a kidnapped curator from something like our own Cambridge U survive long enough to help solve the mystery? Is it a derivative premise? Yep. Is it fun anyway? Yep. 3.5 stars.… (altro)

St. John, Eva. The Quantum Curators and the Enemy Within. Quantum Curators No. 2. Mudlark’s Press, 2020.
The early twentieth-century adventure story vibe one gets from the title of The Quantum Curators and the Enemy Within is a clue to the tone of this series. Julius, a nerdy archivist from Cambridge University, has been dragged into the alternate Earth that was revealed in the first volume and now works with the alternate Earth team of time-traveling, universe-hopping relic hunters, whom he helped rescue a Fabergé egg in the first volume. The title gives away the plot element, that, oh my, there are some villains on his new team. In the first volume, Neith, a resident of alternate Egypt looks at the Thames in our world and opines that a river just doesn’t look right without crocodiles. In this one, Julius must come to grips with a futuristic Egypt that is the biggest superpower on alternate Earth. I enjoyed his fish-out-of-water story enough to put up with the hokey plot. 3.5 stars.… (altro)

St. John, Eva. The Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg. Quantum Curators No. 1. Mudlark Press, 2020.
What we have here is an alternate worlds romantic caper fantasy. That is a mouthful, and I am sorry. Think The Librarians series meets the historians of St. Mary’s series, and you will be about right. In fact, there is a Fabergé egg hunt in one episode of The Librarians TV series. Homage happens. We live on Beta Earth. On Alpha Earth Julius Caesar drowned before he could conquer Egypt. In the 21st century, Alpha Egypt has time travel and an enlightened Pharaoh. They raid Beta Earth to retrieve artifacts that would otherwise be lost. Neith is a time-traveling curator from Alpha Earth who gets involved with Julius, an archivist from Beta Earth’s Cambridge U. There is, of course, a meet-cute and the two join forces to find a missing Fabergé egg. Adventure and humor happen. It is an enjoyable popcorn read. 3.5 stars.… (altro)