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|title=The Queen at War (Chronicles of the Tempus)

|sort=Queen at War (Chronicles of the Tempus) , The

|publisher=Corvus

|date=February 2013

|summary=This is the second part of the Chronicles of the Tempus and once again it's an exciting time travelling adventure. Darker than the first novel this is a good story but perhaps too disturbing for some younger confident readers.

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Katie Berger-Jones-Burg is puzzled. Living with her former pop-star mother in a New York apartment she is having strange visions. It seems she has forgotten all about her previous time travelling adventures (in [[The Queen Must Die (Chronicles of the Tempus) by K A S Quinn|The Queen Must Die]]) although someone appears to be trying to send her some clues to prompt her memory. Her friends from Victorian England, Princess Alice and James, are facing difficulties of their own, with a very sick friend and also the threat of war. They need Katie's help, but how can they get her to travel back in time to them?

The science fiction element to the story was sadly, once again, not the strongest part of the plot for me. I really enjoy all of the historical aspects (surprisingly, since I was a dunce at history at school!) but I find the sci-fi side doesn't quite hang right as yet. I don't know if it's that as readers we don't yet have enough information as to what's properly going on, and perhaps this is on purpose for some grand reveal in the third book, but I felt all the way through that I was missing a chunk of vital information. I don't completely understand the warring factions who are not of our world, and quite what they are doing with Katie or why. Hopefully all will be made clear in the third book, (and I shall be very upset if it isn't!) but for now it's one of those rather frustrating time travel conundrums that you just have to accept!

The first book in the series is [[The Queen Must Die (Chronicles of the Tempus) by K A S Quinn|The Queen Must Die]] or you might enjoy [[The Dresskeeper by Mary Naylus]]