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The Collapse #6
Conundrum
The Collapse is here. Titanic waves leave behind devastation, chaos, and a surprising survivor who will challenge everything Rosie thought she knew about The Towers.
And in 2074, as David slips the last few pieces of the puzzle into place, he realizes he’s built a bombshell, one that could easily blow his whole world apart.
Sacrifices run high, with consequences that reverberate in every direction: past, present, and future.
Rosie’s fate has always been ordained.
Or has it?
And in 2074, as David slips the last few pieces of the puzzle into place, he realizes he’s built a bombshell, one that could easily blow his whole world apart.
Sacrifices run high, with consequences that reverberate in every direction: past, present, and future.
Rosie’s fate has always been ordained.
Or has it?
222 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 18, 2020
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Penelope Wright
70 books71 followersPenelope Wright spent a quarter of her life on the east coast and the rest in Washington state. She worked her way through college in restaurants, hospitals, factories, and everything in between, finally graduating summa cum laude from the University of Washington after an absurdly long time. She loves both traditions and new experiences, and will try anything once, except skydiving, which is a hard no. She lives north of Seattle with her husband and two amazing teenagers.
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January 20, 2020
I’m happy.
I had my doubts for a while there.
After five books of time travelling, disaster and betrayal. It’s all explained.
I was particularly worried because in the previous book. We we were faced with the identity of General Safeco. This threw out serious ramifications for my HEA.
But all is good. This has been a fabulous little series. And this the final book is a great end.
October 5, 2020
Nice
All’s well that ends well. This book still left me with a few questions, but any good sci-fi does. I enjoyed the series.
All’s well that ends well. This book still left me with a few questions, but any good sci-fi does. I enjoyed the series.
February 19, 2020
A big “yes!” To all the series!
“Foundation” has always been my favorite time travel book. Ms. Wright, you are not Asimov (yet) but you’ve made a good start at it! I loved Rosie and Carlos and loved how you managed to bring them together in different timelines. I would say more about the intricate way you ave woven all the characters together but I don’t want to create a spoiler. I’ll just say “great job”!
“Foundation” has always been my favorite time travel book. Ms. Wright, you are not Asimov (yet) but you’ve made a good start at it! I loved Rosie and Carlos and loved how you managed to bring them together in different timelines. I would say more about the intricate way you ave woven all the characters together but I don’t want to create a spoiler. I’ll just say “great job”!
April 22, 2021
Okay. I have to admit I was entertained. I zipped through this series because it is packed with action and the characters are like able enough to want to see what happens to them. Of course, you have to suspend your disbelief, especially about the huge plot hole of how a girl can be her own grandmother. Reading this series was a little like a candy addiction. I’m ready for something different, but I don’t know what.
March 23, 2021
I think that this final review works for the whole series. Time travel is a tricky subject, and this one, like so many falls into the lets repeat it until we like the ending. I will admit I am a picky reader, I really want well developed characters that I like. This series fails that issue for me. Sorry but meh.
January 19, 2020
Love the ending!
I'm so happy and so sad! I love the ending, but I'm going to miss all of these people.
The writing is excellent and everything came together with no loose ends or 'tricks' to make it work. Penelope Wright's talent is incredible.
I'm so happy and so sad! I love the ending, but I'm going to miss all of these people.
The writing is excellent and everything came together with no loose ends or 'tricks' to make it work. Penelope Wright's talent is incredible.
July 28, 2020
Explosive finale to the series. Lots of twists and turns. You need to really pay attention to all the information. I'm still not sure I have all the time jumps in line. Story is fast paced. Who gets the HEA or does anyone get one?
June 9, 2021
A Page Turner
I have to applaud the amazing weaving of a story across multiple times, changing timelines, and alternate time lines. And still the book is easy to follow and impossible to put down. One of the best time traveling books I have read in several years.
I have to applaud the amazing weaving of a story across multiple times, changing timelines, and alternate time lines. And still the book is easy to follow and impossible to put down. One of the best time traveling books I have read in several years.
March 3, 2025
Why is it the last book?
To see everything Rosie went through and all the twists and turns that happened throughout the other 5 books, I am pleased with how this wrapped up. Definitely worth reading them!
To see everything Rosie went through and all the twists and turns that happened throughout the other 5 books, I am pleased with how this wrapped up. Definitely worth reading them!
June 30, 2020
Love this series!
I really love the story line, the characters, and how well she makes you feel like you're in the story.
I really love the story line, the characters, and how well she makes you feel like you're in the story.
February 15, 2021
Brilliant end to an amazing book series. I couldn't put them down.
February 16, 2021
I recommend the series to all gf who grew up reading this type of fic as teens. I’ve read all 6 and they’re a good distraction from the pandemic.
March 11, 2021
Enjoyable series
April 4, 2021
I loved this whole series. Easy read, but great story.
November 2, 2024
Good
This ad really Great. It was a good story if it was confusing at times. In the end it was great.
This ad really Great. It was a good story if it was confusing at times. In the end it was great.
February 10, 2025
SO FRACKING GOOD!!!!!!!! By far one of my most favorite series ever!!!
May 22, 2022
This review reflects my thoughts on the entire series. Spoilerish warning.
I was quite a bit disappointed in the conclusion only because we don’t really experience everything that I would have hoped for in a linear fashion. Instead, because of how things worked themselves out, it’s in a flashback type of way. And, if I’m being completely honest, it does make sense and is probably the most realistic outcome. But it leaves me dissatisfied.
Otherwise, the only other large complaint I have is the MAJOR ‘conundrum’ (more widely known in time travel as a PARADOX)… We need origins for certain things … and we do not have them. Rosarita knows the things she knows because of how Rosie grew up. And Rosie grows up and knows those things because they’re what Rosarita (& the lieutenant) put into place. But without one of those things having a TRUE origin, it’s basically a time loop. Something that can only exist within itself…or not exist at all. (Hence the paradox.) And, actually, the truth is, it can’t exist because there is no beginning of the loop.
This is ALSO true of the ENTIRE marriage to Sarah. Why did she enter the equation AT ALL to start the whole thing spinning? David didn’t want her. Rosie didn’t want her. But she was vital to the entire storyline and all of its beginnings and yet it is completely without necessity or logic. I can see if they would have had one iteration of David truly enamored with her or making the choice on his own to marry her. (Example: Lisa dies somehow and he’s devastated because he realizes he loves her and can’t fix it and he goes off and does the wreckless thing and married her?? I don’t know. We need SOME storyline here that fits.) Then he finds out about her and is about to fix his mistake and learns he can’t otherwise it’ll undo everything (much like the Rachel storyline… which broke my heart and made me extraordinarily angry.)
A few other minor things are:
1) We suddenly have The United Towers and a president, but I feel like it just needed to be suggested there there were probably other self-contained societies all over the world as well. (And I’m sure Mr. Scientist…and Lisa…and then Maria… could have all figured out a way to communicate with the outside world for information, exchanges, trade, etc.) That this isn’t the only thing left in the entire world.
2) There was way, way too much time spent on angsty teenage drama and feelings and misunderstandings and emotions. It didn’t belong here in this series and it totally bogged entire books down at times. It messed with pacing and was honestly very irrelevant to the major story arc. It also extended these books out to 6…where I’m pretty sure 3 or 4 would have sufficed had all of those things not occurred.
3) The love story was boring. It happened weird and I just didn’t like it much at all. I kind of feel like the book would have been better if there was LESS focus on the romance… which is saying something because I don’t usually read any books if they don’t have a romantic subplot. But in this case, it was so poorly done that I would have rather it not been done at all.
4) There was so much unnecessary violence and creepy, twistedness - especially with Ellen, but also at times with David - and it really disturbed me. It wasn’t AT ALL necessary or vital to the storyline and it seemed like the author was trying to push this into Dean Koontz territory. And if I’d wanted a Dean Koontz kind of weirdness, I’d have picked up one of his books! 🙄
In the end, I’m giving the series 4 stars because I devoured all the books over the course of 2 days, staying up way too late and losing sleep because I was so engrossed in the major story arc.
I was quite a bit disappointed in the conclusion only because we don’t really experience everything that I would have hoped for in a linear fashion. Instead, because of how things worked themselves out, it’s in a flashback type of way. And, if I’m being completely honest, it does make sense and is probably the most realistic outcome. But it leaves me dissatisfied.
Otherwise, the only other large complaint I have is the MAJOR ‘conundrum’ (more widely known in time travel as a PARADOX)… We need origins for certain things … and we do not have them. Rosarita knows the things she knows because of how Rosie grew up. And Rosie grows up and knows those things because they’re what Rosarita (& the lieutenant) put into place. But without one of those things having a TRUE origin, it’s basically a time loop. Something that can only exist within itself…or not exist at all. (Hence the paradox.) And, actually, the truth is, it can’t exist because there is no beginning of the loop.
This is ALSO true of the ENTIRE marriage to Sarah. Why did she enter the equation AT ALL to start the whole thing spinning? David didn’t want her. Rosie didn’t want her. But she was vital to the entire storyline and all of its beginnings and yet it is completely without necessity or logic. I can see if they would have had one iteration of David truly enamored with her or making the choice on his own to marry her. (Example: Lisa dies somehow and he’s devastated because he realizes he loves her and can’t fix it and he goes off and does the wreckless thing and married her?? I don’t know. We need SOME storyline here that fits.) Then he finds out about her and is about to fix his mistake and learns he can’t otherwise it’ll undo everything (much like the Rachel storyline… which broke my heart and made me extraordinarily angry.)
A few other minor things are:
1) We suddenly have The United Towers and a president, but I feel like it just needed to be suggested there there were probably other self-contained societies all over the world as well. (And I’m sure Mr. Scientist…and Lisa…and then Maria… could have all figured out a way to communicate with the outside world for information, exchanges, trade, etc.) That this isn’t the only thing left in the entire world.
2) There was way, way too much time spent on angsty teenage drama and feelings and misunderstandings and emotions. It didn’t belong here in this series and it totally bogged entire books down at times. It messed with pacing and was honestly very irrelevant to the major story arc. It also extended these books out to 6…where I’m pretty sure 3 or 4 would have sufficed had all of those things not occurred.
3) The love story was boring. It happened weird and I just didn’t like it much at all. I kind of feel like the book would have been better if there was LESS focus on the romance… which is saying something because I don’t usually read any books if they don’t have a romantic subplot. But in this case, it was so poorly done that I would have rather it not been done at all.
4) There was so much unnecessary violence and creepy, twistedness - especially with Ellen, but also at times with David - and it really disturbed me. It wasn’t AT ALL necessary or vital to the storyline and it seemed like the author was trying to push this into Dean Koontz territory. And if I’d wanted a Dean Koontz kind of weirdness, I’d have picked up one of his books! 🙄
In the end, I’m giving the series 4 stars because I devoured all the books over the course of 2 days, staying up way too late and losing sleep because I was so engrossed in the major story arc.
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