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God's Loophole #4
Time's Beginning
A rip in spacetime grows at a terrifying speed, and humanity can do nothing to stop it. In five and a half months, it will swallow earth.
The two telekinetic teenagers who might have halted the hole’s spread are gone, cut out of the universe; Gabriel and Raedyn face eternity in a nuclear fallout shelter drifting in limbo—endless curving hallways, abandoned lounges, swimming pools still as glass.
But when their crew begins vanishing one by one, they realize they’re not alone in their private hell. At night, an invisible creature hunts them. Something’s getting into their food, shadows skitter behind corners, footsteps creak in empty rooms. In the morning, they find claw marks burned into the walls . . . and the leftover body parts.
Now, facing her worst nightmare yet, Raedyn must outwit a demon before it wrests away the last of her soul—and devours them all. Racing a ticking clock, Gabriel must exploit the ultimate loophole in bubble logic . . . before they and all existence collapse into oblivion.
The two telekinetic teenagers who might have halted the hole’s spread are gone, cut out of the universe; Gabriel and Raedyn face eternity in a nuclear fallout shelter drifting in limbo—endless curving hallways, abandoned lounges, swimming pools still as glass.
But when their crew begins vanishing one by one, they realize they’re not alone in their private hell. At night, an invisible creature hunts them. Something’s getting into their food, shadows skitter behind corners, footsteps creak in empty rooms. In the morning, they find claw marks burned into the walls . . . and the leftover body parts.
Now, facing her worst nightmare yet, Raedyn must outwit a demon before it wrests away the last of her soul—and devours them all. Racing a ticking clock, Gabriel must exploit the ultimate loophole in bubble logic . . . before they and all existence collapse into oblivion.
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398 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2015
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February 1, 2015
Where do we go from here? How do we complete a journey that began innocently with youthful idealism and bright futures, but got so snarled along the way with demons and spacetime rips and the end of the world?
As a quick recap, this series starts with God's Loophole, where Jeremy Rockwell builds the prototype of the Bubble and gets his brother, Gabe, and his girlfriend, Rae, to help him test it. Soon, the three teenagers are in deep trouble - not just because they've gained telekinetic powers, but because they've set in motion the end of the world and the FBI are after them. Eternity’s End has Rae stuck in the Bubble, trying to figure out the maze and fighting against herself to survive, whilst Gabe is struggling to learn enough control his powers enough to save her. But the rip in the universe is rapidly growing larger, and more people are dying from a strange demon that demands Rae's life. In Heaven’s Enigma Gabe, Rae and Jeremy have been coerced to help Sabina Boyd save the world from their mistakes.
Time's Beginning, the final book in the series, begins in a hopeless place. The three teens find themselves stuck in a bubble again - but this time, they've been totally cut off from the Earth. They've been cycled down and cut adrift in the realm of possibilities with no way of getting back to Earth - worse still, the Bubble has been severely damaged. It's not just the end of the world that's plaguing them. It's the end of their very existence. To add to that, the demon that's been haunting the rip in Palo Alto has found its way to them and is now picking the six people left in the Cheyenne Mountain bubble off one by one.
It's human nature to fight to survive and to hold on to hope even in the bleakest of situations. So that's exactly what they do. Gabe is still hard at work trying to figure out how they can escape back into the real world while Rae decides to face the Minotaur head on, refusing to be intimidated into inaction. And just when they start to believe that all hope is gone, Kimberly Sims and Lanto turn up, sparking new ideas, revealing new information, and finally giving them a solution that just might save the world.
Rix does a great job weaving the scattered threads together, serving up an ending that is not only satisfying, but beautiful, sweet and tragic. There are times when you want to smack both Rae and Gabe silly (especially Rae), and there are times when you find Jeremy an annoying old stick, but through it all, you feel with them and for them.
*I received a pre-release copy of this e-book from the author in exchange for an honest review.
As a quick recap, this series starts with God's Loophole, where Jeremy Rockwell builds the prototype of the Bubble and gets his brother, Gabe, and his girlfriend, Rae, to help him test it. Soon, the three teenagers are in deep trouble - not just because they've gained telekinetic powers, but because they've set in motion the end of the world and the FBI are after them. Eternity’s End has Rae stuck in the Bubble, trying to figure out the maze and fighting against herself to survive, whilst Gabe is struggling to learn enough control his powers enough to save her. But the rip in the universe is rapidly growing larger, and more people are dying from a strange demon that demands Rae's life. In Heaven’s Enigma Gabe, Rae and Jeremy have been coerced to help Sabina Boyd save the world from their mistakes.
Time's Beginning, the final book in the series, begins in a hopeless place. The three teens find themselves stuck in a bubble again - but this time, they've been totally cut off from the Earth. They've been cycled down and cut adrift in the realm of possibilities with no way of getting back to Earth - worse still, the Bubble has been severely damaged. It's not just the end of the world that's plaguing them. It's the end of their very existence. To add to that, the demon that's been haunting the rip in Palo Alto has found its way to them and is now picking the six people left in the Cheyenne Mountain bubble off one by one.
It's human nature to fight to survive and to hold on to hope even in the bleakest of situations. So that's exactly what they do. Gabe is still hard at work trying to figure out how they can escape back into the real world while Rae decides to face the Minotaur head on, refusing to be intimidated into inaction. And just when they start to believe that all hope is gone, Kimberly Sims and Lanto turn up, sparking new ideas, revealing new information, and finally giving them a solution that just might save the world.
Rix does a great job weaving the scattered threads together, serving up an ending that is not only satisfying, but beautiful, sweet and tragic. There are times when you want to smack both Rae and Gabe silly (especially Rae), and there are times when you find Jeremy an annoying old stick, but through it all, you feel with them and for them.
*I received a pre-release copy of this e-book from the author in exchange for an honest review.
June 4, 2025
A great ending, even if the reality of the science has largely fallen by the wayside, I can't quite determine how self-consistent everything is but I enjoyed the storytelling nonetheless. Very glad to have found Dan carried on with these after reading the first book way back in 2014.
December 6, 2015
I really feel like a lot more could have been done with this, the first part, just plods. There are waaayyy too many false starts. Then we go into the demon. Again, overdone, overhype, overkill. Raedyn's story is still interesting, Gabe's, slightly less so. No clue why Jer is even there other than a placeholder, we rarely see his point of view, and it adds to the lack of dynamic. Lanto/Kim are among the major Charisma game savers. Sabina? Hardly exists, more could have been done with her. Decent read to finish it off, but nothing spectacular.
August 17, 2015
What a gorgeous ending to another phenomenal series!!! Bravo!!! Thank you for giving early access to one hell-of-a read. At times it left me breathless, brought tears of joy and despair, and peaked my science-geek love. This adventure will stay with me for years to come. One of my all-time favorite series.
February 5, 2016
Amazing
This book is an emotional roller coaster. Dan Rix is a genius. Read it. Just, read it. You won't be able to put it down
This book is an emotional roller coaster. Dan Rix is a genius. Read it. Just, read it. You won't be able to put it down
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