This tootles along, doing some world-building, first in Elizabethan England and then back in France. The historical details are interesting and well presented. The pace is quite leisurely but not boring.
My only hesitation is with our heroine, Diana. She's a successful female academic who has carved a niche for herself in a male-dominated world. We keep being told that she's an exceptionally talented witch, albeit one whose powers have been hidden until recently. In the last book, she killed a vampire and defied powerful witches. And yet, now that she's walked back five centuries, she seems remarkably passive.
I'm making allowances for her adjusting to new circumstances and being the presence of absurdly testosterone-charged predatory males but even so, she seems a bit too soft to survive.
Of course, on the one occasion that she is in real danger, her reaction is swift and lethal but she only seems to react. She doesn't plan and she doesn't push. Maybe that's who she is but it sure does take the edge off the tension.
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