Historians who travel back in time necessarily take a lot of risks. But when Kivrin goes back things definitely go pear-shaped. Firstly, she arrives extremely ill, and nearly dies, and then things go from bad to worse.
Meanwhile, back in her own time, a major outbreak starts up and puts the team who she hopes will open the net to retrieve her are equally ill and have no idea that she isn’t where she should be, but is instead in the midst of the Black Death.
I can see where some people found this book repetitive and slow going. It is that, especially in the first 200 pages or so. But at the same time, it is riveting, and emotional and awesome in its breadth and depth of understanding.
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