RIGHT??? The book did have some fairly dark things earlier, but they were all off-camera and/or downplayed - e.g. a couple of her co-workers died, and it's suggested that people in this line of work die A LOT, and there was also some plot stuff about having to choose whether to try to save people in the past while observing historical events or let them die. But it was still all basically PG - bad stuff happened, but the core of the book was still this fun, light story about a time-traveling grad student.

AND THEN THAT HAPPENED. D:

I'm glad it's not just me on the squick. I think I wouldn't have been nearly as offput by, for example, someone trying to assault her in one of the historical periods she went to. But that was just so bleak, especially coming from someone she liked and trusted. I did not go into a book like this expecting something like THAT!