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The Bad Part of Time
Variel Martinez has been dreading today for the past fifty-five years: the day her younger self is going to attack her.
She works as a supervisor at the Temporal Security Administration, an agency tasked with safeguarding the timeline while tourists and businesspeople hop hundreds of years into the past or future. But despite her best efforts to prepare her subordinates and stop what she knows is coming, the timeline can’t be changed.
A young terrorist bursts through a time gate. She exchanges fire with Variel’s coworkers. When they corner her, she takes Variel hostage at gunpoint.
Her colleagues quickly learn that the terrorist is Variel’s revolutionary younger self, and that she’s on an all-or-nothing mission to prevent the end of the world. She steals Variel away to a dangerous past where love, heartache, and loss force her to ask herself: is this still my fight?
She works as a supervisor at the Temporal Security Administration, an agency tasked with safeguarding the timeline while tourists and businesspeople hop hundreds of years into the past or future. But despite her best efforts to prepare her subordinates and stop what she knows is coming, the timeline can’t be changed.
A young terrorist bursts through a time gate. She exchanges fire with Variel’s coworkers. When they corner her, she takes Variel hostage at gunpoint.
Her colleagues quickly learn that the terrorist is Variel’s revolutionary younger self, and that she’s on an all-or-nothing mission to prevent the end of the world. She steals Variel away to a dangerous past where love, heartache, and loss force her to ask herself: is this still my fight?
197 pages, ebook
First published October 7, 2021
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Joshua Ingle
17 books35 followersI’m a pathologically curious sci-fi and fantasy geek. Most of my writing portrays ethical crises packaged in propulsive thriller and mystery story lines, taking place in unique story worlds.
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November 27, 2021
A thought provoking time travel caper exploring the themes of life, age and politics…
Just what would you do if given the opportunity to meet your younger self? A younger self who is determined to change the culture of an ageist world through angry activism. That’s exactly what this intriguing and wonderfully original book explores as we meet ‘Variel’ who has lived life knowing eventually she is going to face her younger self and that day has arrived.
“…there was no stopping the inevitable, so she swallowed her dread, observed her morning routine, and accepted today was going to be a very bad day…”
Based in a future where time travel is possible and is a type of tourist or even business activity, ‘Variel’ faces her younger self ‘V’ and their journey begins. The dialogue between them is well executed much like where this story takes you. Social themes of ageism, privilege and politics are centre stage here as ‘V’ is angrily determined to change society for the better and for the young. ‘Variel’ does her best to guide her younger self through the vacuum of youthful rebellion and the morality of the world. Their back and forth interactions act as a metaphor for what is happening in that wider world and being angry is okay but fixing things is perhaps better.
“Stop Blaming. Start Fixing.”
Youth and age clash constantly in a story that carries intricate and meaningful messages throughout where you are viewed as the sledgehammer, the bomb or the paintbrush which serves as great symbolism for the world and life. A great read.
Just what would you do if given the opportunity to meet your younger self? A younger self who is determined to change the culture of an ageist world through angry activism. That’s exactly what this intriguing and wonderfully original book explores as we meet ‘Variel’ who has lived life knowing eventually she is going to face her younger self and that day has arrived.
“…there was no stopping the inevitable, so she swallowed her dread, observed her morning routine, and accepted today was going to be a very bad day…”
Based in a future where time travel is possible and is a type of tourist or even business activity, ‘Variel’ faces her younger self ‘V’ and their journey begins. The dialogue between them is well executed much like where this story takes you. Social themes of ageism, privilege and politics are centre stage here as ‘V’ is angrily determined to change society for the better and for the young. ‘Variel’ does her best to guide her younger self through the vacuum of youthful rebellion and the morality of the world. Their back and forth interactions act as a metaphor for what is happening in that wider world and being angry is okay but fixing things is perhaps better.
“Stop Blaming. Start Fixing.”
Youth and age clash constantly in a story that carries intricate and meaningful messages throughout where you are viewed as the sledgehammer, the bomb or the paintbrush which serves as great symbolism for the world and life. A great read.
January 23, 2022
Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book. Some people might love the fluidity of time travel in this book constantly changing the narrative past, but I found it to be muddy and hard to follow. Time travel is tough to get right - established rules in a universe should only be broken once (if even at all). I know it’s all fiction, but it felt like rules were established in the book and then simply forgotten at the expense of attempted snappy twists and turns. 3 stars feels generous.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 9, 2022
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!
“People assume that time is a strict progression from cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.” (S03E10 Doctor Who)
"The Bad Part of Time" grabbed me by the neck and wouldn't let go. The concept of time travel in sci-fi is a classic and is one of my absolute favorites! At first, the "Temporal Security Administration" sounded like it may be a sly rip-off of the "Time Variance Authority", but the story proved that wrong instantly. The TSA (hah) is nothing like the TVA, besides the barebones description of the "Agency that regulates time travel". The world in which the TSA resides is fascinating, and just a bit confusing logistics-wise. How the hell does all of humanity fit into what is essentially a two hundred-year loop?! Reading Variel and V argue with one another was also wildly interesting to read. Yes, they are the same person, but they also are not. Their conversations felt more like how one would argue with one's self within their own mind. Also, the stances on how to affect change politically that both V and Variel hold were interesting to see clash when they speak. They are both right, but they are both wrong. I could understand how some people will take V's dialogue or "tirades" as "Social Justice Warrior" nonsense. But as someone who has fought for her own social justice and helped those who are fighting for theirs, I can understand her frustrations. However, I could also understand Variel's perspective, because I also have sat with those on the other side of the table, who say the fight is won with words, not violence. It is a complicated topic, but V and Variel perfectly show the conflict between those who fight for equality. While V and Variel are on the run, this story smacks you with some wild theories of time travel in its own world-building. The time gates themselves as a concept are FASCINATING. I can't really say too much because I don't want to spoil some great plot turns, but god it's so good! I love stories that bend the mind, and this certainly does just that! (I would say it's "Inception" level of mind bend) Also, the one paragraph at the very end got me. I didn't expect it, but god I'm so happy it ended like that.
“People assume that time is a strict progression from cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.” (S03E10 Doctor Who)
"The Bad Part of Time" grabbed me by the neck and wouldn't let go. The concept of time travel in sci-fi is a classic and is one of my absolute favorites! At first, the "Temporal Security Administration" sounded like it may be a sly rip-off of the "Time Variance Authority", but the story proved that wrong instantly. The TSA (hah) is nothing like the TVA, besides the barebones description of the "Agency that regulates time travel". The world in which the TSA resides is fascinating, and just a bit confusing logistics-wise. How the hell does all of humanity fit into what is essentially a two hundred-year loop?! Reading Variel and V argue with one another was also wildly interesting to read. Yes, they are the same person, but they also are not. Their conversations felt more like how one would argue with one's self within their own mind. Also, the stances on how to affect change politically that both V and Variel hold were interesting to see clash when they speak. They are both right, but they are both wrong. I could understand how some people will take V's dialogue or "tirades" as "Social Justice Warrior" nonsense. But as someone who has fought for her own social justice and helped those who are fighting for theirs, I can understand her frustrations. However, I could also understand Variel's perspective, because I also have sat with those on the other side of the table, who say the fight is won with words, not violence. It is a complicated topic, but V and Variel perfectly show the conflict between those who fight for equality. While V and Variel are on the run, this story smacks you with some wild theories of time travel in its own world-building. The time gates themselves as a concept are FASCINATING. I can't really say too much because I don't want to spoil some great plot turns, but god it's so good! I love stories that bend the mind, and this certainly does just that! (I would say it's "Inception" level of mind bend) Also, the one paragraph at the very end got me. I didn't expect it, but god I'm so happy it ended like that.
February 7, 2022
This is a review of an ARC from NetGalley.
Variel Martinez is a bureaucrat with the Temporal Security Administration, an agency tasked with safeguarding the timeline as tourists, businesspeople, and refugees travel. They only go about 200 years into the future, because that's when the world ends -something everyone knows is coming, but most people ignore. The few who don't include terrorists trying to stop the impending apocalypse by blowing up the timeline. And Variel knows exactly who they are, because one of them is her younger self.
There was a good idea here about using time travel to examine whether people can actually change. If you can convince your younger (or older) self to see things differently, can you change the world? Or are we predestined to always be a true self. But it was SO confusing. It felt like Ingle was trying to do too many things - have a story about time travel, and the perils of capitalism, and age discrimination, and about 50 other things. And the logic of time travel just never clearly seemed to come together. The world is destroyed, yet people can still live there? Variel's younger self is from the past, but also from the future? Time travel means events are immutable - because you can go to the future and see something already happened, so now it's in your past, but you also can change everything by bringing something from the future to the past, and make people vanish out of existence? And it was difficult to put up with all the confusion because none of the characters were all that interesting, or even likable, so their impending doom really didn't seem like that big of a deal.
Variel Martinez is a bureaucrat with the Temporal Security Administration, an agency tasked with safeguarding the timeline as tourists, businesspeople, and refugees travel. They only go about 200 years into the future, because that's when the world ends -something everyone knows is coming, but most people ignore. The few who don't include terrorists trying to stop the impending apocalypse by blowing up the timeline. And Variel knows exactly who they are, because one of them is her younger self.
There was a good idea here about using time travel to examine whether people can actually change. If you can convince your younger (or older) self to see things differently, can you change the world? Or are we predestined to always be a true self. But it was SO confusing. It felt like Ingle was trying to do too many things - have a story about time travel, and the perils of capitalism, and age discrimination, and about 50 other things. And the logic of time travel just never clearly seemed to come together. The world is destroyed, yet people can still live there? Variel's younger self is from the past, but also from the future? Time travel means events are immutable - because you can go to the future and see something already happened, so now it's in your past, but you also can change everything by bringing something from the future to the past, and make people vanish out of existence? And it was difficult to put up with all the confusion because none of the characters were all that interesting, or even likable, so their impending doom really didn't seem like that big of a deal.
January 31, 2023
This is definitely the kind of book where you need a piece of paper to keep track of the timeline and not get lost. The main character and her past self are really different, which is fun to see. You will not be bored if you can keep track of the wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.
January 1, 2022
Maybe closer to 2.5 - It was a good idea and there were a few themes and ideas that made you wonder even long after, but there was just a bit too much blah, blah, blah to push this up the stars.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 22, 2022
3 stars. The Bad Part of Time has a very strong premise and a surprisingly intricate world -- a world stuck in a time loop of two hundred years between the invention of the first "time gate" and the apocalypse that everyone knows is coming but is too complacent to do anything about -- but, to me, very little is done with it. Most of the book revolves around Variel Martinez, a former revolutionary turned Temporal Security Administration worker, meeting her younger self, "V", in an encounter that she's been expecting and dreading for fifty-five years. The interactions between Variel, who has come to regret her past and simply wants a quiet life, and V, who cannot believe that her older self has given up on her revolutionary ideals, form the meat of the storyline, even as they must run from time gate to time gate to deal with the aftermath of V's attack. At its bones, this book offers a lot of promise.
However, I couldn't help but feel unsatisfied with the way that the storyline ends up unfolding. Much of the book consists of political debates between Variel and V, which seem to be intended to paint a sort of gray-morality portrait of the conflict between more radical and more conservative ends of the political spectrum, but they fail to do that more than they just quote buzzwords and quips from modern-day Twitter and NYT editorials. It felt like the author was trying to subtly weave in messaging about our current political climate, but it ends up feeling like a hammer instead. On top of that, the messaging was confusing and inconclusive. We are constantly told that "time can't change," a mantra that drives many of Variel's decisions toward inaction, but starting at around halfway through, it becomes very clear that V and Variel's timelines are changing. And in light of that, many of the plot points just don't make sense. It's not that the time travel made the story confusing -- on the contrary, I think I actually perfectly understood what was happening near the end of the book. It's that I couldn't understand why Variel and V were continuing to take the actions that they were, considering everything we'd learned over the course of the novel. I finished the book feeling very much unfulfilled.
The Bad Part of Time is an intriguing time-travel tale that promises to push boundaries, but really ends up only gesturing at them.
However, I couldn't help but feel unsatisfied with the way that the storyline ends up unfolding. Much of the book consists of political debates between Variel and V, which seem to be intended to paint a sort of gray-morality portrait of the conflict between more radical and more conservative ends of the political spectrum, but they fail to do that more than they just quote buzzwords and quips from modern-day Twitter and NYT editorials. It felt like the author was trying to subtly weave in messaging about our current political climate, but it ends up feeling like a hammer instead. On top of that, the messaging was confusing and inconclusive. We are constantly told that "time can't change," a mantra that drives many of Variel's decisions toward inaction, but starting at around halfway through, it becomes very clear that V and Variel's timelines are changing. And in light of that, many of the plot points just don't make sense. It's not that the time travel made the story confusing -- on the contrary, I think I actually perfectly understood what was happening near the end of the book. It's that I couldn't understand why Variel and V were continuing to take the actions that they were, considering everything we'd learned over the course of the novel. I finished the book feeling very much unfulfilled.
The Bad Part of Time is an intriguing time-travel tale that promises to push boundaries, but really ends up only gesturing at them.
January 10, 2022
I read this book thanks to NetGalley
The Bad Part of Time is set in a undertermined future when time travel has been discovered and regulated by the government creating the TSA. The story focuses in 70 something years old Valerian, a Puerto Rican agent in the edge of retirement. We get a glimpse into her life as she prepares to what it seems like the most important day of their life. We may think is retirement, but it’s actually her encounter with her past self, V, a terrorist that wants to change the dominant government that has alienated the youth into poverty and lack of opportunities, to keep them bellow.
The book deals with so much beautifully, it talks about how to change the world, how to care of it, and even it gives you a glimpse of what you look like in different stages of your life. It present the structure of power really way and tells the readers how we are dealing with a system that creates -with intention- the conditions for many of the miserable things that happen. And of course, time traveling.
The characters of Valerian and V are well crafted, one, older, seeing the foul young fight, and the younger deceived with the result of her own life. I think it deals well with not only the disappointment of how life can apparently crush your young dreams, but also with the no stopping hope of changing that it should spark for ever in all of us, it doesn’t matter the age.
It is a recommended read, it is really light and sometimes blunt. So much that I missed some of the poetic style that I normally seek.
The Bad Part of Time is set in a undertermined future when time travel has been discovered and regulated by the government creating the TSA. The story focuses in 70 something years old Valerian, a Puerto Rican agent in the edge of retirement. We get a glimpse into her life as she prepares to what it seems like the most important day of their life. We may think is retirement, but it’s actually her encounter with her past self, V, a terrorist that wants to change the dominant government that has alienated the youth into poverty and lack of opportunities, to keep them bellow.
The book deals with so much beautifully, it talks about how to change the world, how to care of it, and even it gives you a glimpse of what you look like in different stages of your life. It present the structure of power really way and tells the readers how we are dealing with a system that creates -with intention- the conditions for many of the miserable things that happen. And of course, time traveling.
The characters of Valerian and V are well crafted, one, older, seeing the foul young fight, and the younger deceived with the result of her own life. I think it deals well with not only the disappointment of how life can apparently crush your young dreams, but also with the no stopping hope of changing that it should spark for ever in all of us, it doesn’t matter the age.
It is a recommended read, it is really light and sometimes blunt. So much that I missed some of the poetic style that I normally seek.
February 13, 2022
Many thanks to Goodreads for sending a free ebook in a giveaway for review. I love a good time travel adventure, and overall, this story fits the bill. I enjoyed the themes of predestination and social justice. I loved the action packed adventure. I loved the idea of time gates. What I didn't love was the near constant philosophical and political arguments between the main characters, 79-year-old Variel and her 24-year-old self, V. I think the author does a great job presenting both viewpoints throughout their time together, but every time they get into a heated conversation the discourse is as heavy as a sledgehammer and feels like I'm reading Twitter. If their discussions weren't so heavy handed, I think it could've worked more and took me out of the story less. Old people like status quo, young people like to make things better. I get it. And while the idea of predestination was challenged in very cool ways, the book stayed firm on not creating time paradoxes. Yet the whole story is about a young and old self meeting and going on an adventure. Seems a little paradoxical to me. I didn't see how it would conclude, but I was pleasantly surprised.
I thought Alex, the first book character I ever read who uses they/them pronouns, was super cool. Lately I've been digging side characters way more than main characters. Like I'd love to read a book from Alex's point of view to see what happened when they were off screen/not around V and Variel.
I thought Alex, the first book character I ever read who uses they/them pronouns, was super cool. Lately I've been digging side characters way more than main characters. Like I'd love to read a book from Alex's point of view to see what happened when they were off screen/not around V and Variel.
September 5, 2023
This is a truly dynamic book that visits themes of ageism, social justice, and environmental responsibility in a future where time travel is now overseen by the TSA.
The vivid writing will leave you feeling as though you are right along side our protagonist, Variel. The character development is deep for a shorter novel and will leave you feeling as if you understand more than just the essence of the main characters.
There are subtle clues along the way that challenge what you think SHOULD be and what actually IS. Considering that time travel is not actually a thing (yet) there technically are no rules, except the “rules” the TSA has set forth (who sides with authority anyway?).
Ingle’s writing will leave you wanting more and connecting the dots along the way to a very oddly satisfying end.
This is not my typical read but I am glad I added this one to the list.
The vivid writing will leave you feeling as though you are right along side our protagonist, Variel. The character development is deep for a shorter novel and will leave you feeling as if you understand more than just the essence of the main characters.
There are subtle clues along the way that challenge what you think SHOULD be and what actually IS. Considering that time travel is not actually a thing (yet) there technically are no rules, except the “rules” the TSA has set forth (who sides with authority anyway?).
Ingle’s writing will leave you wanting more and connecting the dots along the way to a very oddly satisfying end.
This is not my typical read but I am glad I added this one to the list.
April 12, 2022
I usually love books about time travel, but I found this book hard to follow and rather uninteresting. I found I did not care about the characters or their struggles. The only interesting character that I found was Alex, a transgender who uses they/them pronouns. The book had some good ideas but I feel got too much into political debate. The arguments between the main character and her younger self were too heated and hard. I did enjoy the idea of what would you do if you met your younger self. The premise behind this book had great promise but I feel just did not meet what I expected.
Thank you NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Thank you NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
February 12, 2022
The things that drew me into this book were time travel and the mutliple time-line/multi POV perspective. While the book was good, part of me just wanted... something more. In my opinion nothing super new was brought to the table here. I think the ending especially drove home the whole "would we really change anything about our lives (past/present/future) if we could?" - and for me the answer wasn't... bold enough.
I think the story is good overall and if you want an interesting futuristic and timey-whimey read I would absolutely recommend this.
I think the story is good overall and if you want an interesting futuristic and timey-whimey read I would absolutely recommend this.
December 26, 2022
It's alright
It's not my normal read, but the description intrigued me.
It was broken up into 3 parts with chapters within each part. The chapters are LONG.
It's a good quick read.
It's not my normal read, but the description intrigued me.
It was broken up into 3 parts with chapters within each part. The chapters are LONG.
It's a good quick read.
February 9, 2022
Well written with an interesting use of the paradoxes of time travel.
February 27, 2022
The bad part of time
I really don't know what to make of this novel. Is it an unreliable narrative told by an unreliable narrator or is that the nature of time and memory?
I really don't know what to make of this novel. Is it an unreliable narrative told by an unreliable narrator or is that the nature of time and memory?
October 26, 2021
I was given an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.
The book started off amazing. I was drawn into Variel and wanting to know more of her story right away. From the moment we meet her she knows that today something is going to go down and she is incapable of stopping it. We soon find out the the younger version of Variel known for the rest of the book as V is breaking into the Temporel security administration.V is here on a mission to try and stop the end of the world but using the time portals jump through time. We follow V and Variels journey of V trying to change the course of history and Variel trying to convince V nothing she dose will change anything.
Now when I put it like that this book sounds amazing and don’t get me wrong this book was good however there are points in the book that I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that it is clearly did it so many times that nothing they do will change the future but it seems to be implied that things are changing and that decisions that happen before I no longer happening and I just found that to be a little confusing with everything else going around in the world.
I felt like some of the characters were not explored enough and they were just kind of thrown in there to just have someone to hate for the time being but honestly if you took them out of the book it wouldn’t have changed anything.
I do have to give the author props for the character of Alex. Alex uses they them pronouns and honestly that is amazing to see in today’s day and age honestly that is one of my favorite things about this book and why my rating is at three stars.
All in all it was just book the best book I’ve ever read no but what I recommend it to people who enjoy sci-fi absolutely it just wasn’t where are usually read so it was a change for me.
The book started off amazing. I was drawn into Variel and wanting to know more of her story right away. From the moment we meet her she knows that today something is going to go down and she is incapable of stopping it. We soon find out the the younger version of Variel known for the rest of the book as V is breaking into the Temporel security administration.V is here on a mission to try and stop the end of the world but using the time portals jump through time. We follow V and Variels journey of V trying to change the course of history and Variel trying to convince V nothing she dose will change anything.
Now when I put it like that this book sounds amazing and don’t get me wrong this book was good however there are points in the book that I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that it is clearly did it so many times that nothing they do will change the future but it seems to be implied that things are changing and that decisions that happen before I no longer happening and I just found that to be a little confusing with everything else going around in the world.
I felt like some of the characters were not explored enough and they were just kind of thrown in there to just have someone to hate for the time being but honestly if you took them out of the book it wouldn’t have changed anything.
I do have to give the author props for the character of Alex. Alex uses they them pronouns and honestly that is amazing to see in today’s day and age honestly that is one of my favorite things about this book and why my rating is at three stars.
All in all it was just book the best book I’ve ever read no but what I recommend it to people who enjoy sci-fi absolutely it just wasn’t where are usually read so it was a change for me.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 18, 2021
Time travel has been man's dream since H. G. Wells to the present. Mr. Ingle wraps his adventure of the time continuum in a story of hope and redemption. He takes the reader on a wild ride through portals of those seeking survival from our crumbling world to a better time. Who has wondered if life would be better if I could tell my younger self to make alternative choices? Is life predestination or clay to be molded? This fascinating pilgrimage of self salvation keeps the reader on a roll coaster of events into twists and turns only such a cleaver author could offer. Take the time to step into Mr. Ingle's portal of time travel through both the spatial and emotional. Mr. Ingle's attention to detail will have you living the experience. Highly recommended.
February 6, 2022
3.5 ⭐
Love the idea of people being able to time travel. Normal people, traveling in a normal weekend, to a normal destination such as the end of the world, yeah totally normal.
The load of political/social criticism is kind of an important part of the book and the rebellion is what drives the mc in the search for social justice for the baby-adults (just like me, a baby) who have no independence at all (at the contrary of me).
Loved how we are constantly told that time has already been written, that we can't actually change a thing bc it has already happened in another time line, but still V keeps trying to do something about it bc (and for an optimistic like me it's all it takes). The action, the constant escaping is just exciting!
Love the idea of people being able to time travel. Normal people, traveling in a normal weekend, to a normal destination such as the end of the world, yeah totally normal.
The load of political/social criticism is kind of an important part of the book and the rebellion is what drives the mc in the search for social justice for the baby-adults (just like me, a baby) who have no independence at all (at the contrary of me).
Loved how we are constantly told that time has already been written, that we can't actually change a thing bc it has already happened in another time line, but still V keeps trying to do something about it bc (and for an optimistic like me it's all it takes). The action, the constant escaping is just exciting!
October 12, 2021
A sci-fi author building a world and plot around a time-travel concept can be a dangerous undertaking, as the mind-bending paradoxes can take center stage and overwhelm the characters and story. But Joshua Ingle navigates this minefield pretty deftly, and delivers a great, action-filled story in a vividly imagined future where time travel is real, revolution is in the air, and characters must confront (sometimes literally) the choices they made as their younger selves, with the heavy knowledge that the past cannot be changed (or.... can it?). Thought provoking and fun, what more can you ask for?
October 10, 2022
Thanks to Net Galley for the ARC of this book in return for an honest review.
I’m quite a fan of time-travel sci-fi, but I found it hard to follow in this book. The story was hard for me to get into because I never felt like I truly understood what was going on. It’s the kind of book you’d need to read a second time in order to understand.
It felt like I kept being told what the rules of time travel were just for them to immediately be broken. I didn’t care too much about the characters or their problems, because none of them were particularly likable or interesting.
I appreciated seeing a character who used they/them pronouns because I haven’t come across that before.
I’m quite a fan of time-travel sci-fi, but I found it hard to follow in this book. The story was hard for me to get into because I never felt like I truly understood what was going on. It’s the kind of book you’d need to read a second time in order to understand.
It felt like I kept being told what the rules of time travel were just for them to immediately be broken. I didn’t care too much about the characters or their problems, because none of them were particularly likable or interesting.
I appreciated seeing a character who used they/them pronouns because I haven’t come across that before.
October 8, 2021
I have read all of Josh Ingle's books, and as always, Ingle is original, smart, and thought-provoking in his writing. I give it five stars mostly because it's unlike anything else you might have read before, and that gives it bonus points. It might need a little more action for some readers, but others will appreciate the intellectual depth of the storyline and characters. There are plenty of twists and surprises to keep it exciting and entertaining, and I would highly recommend this and any of Ingle's other books for a stimulating read.
February 3, 2022
This was a fun time travel adventure. The characters were believable, the world was well crafted and believable. I loved everything about this book. This one kept me reading late into the night to see where it was going . An easy five star read from me. I hope to read more from this author.
Trigger warning for violence. There is some violence at parts in the story so if that is an issue for you be warned.
I received an arc digital copy but my opinions are honest and my own.
Trigger warning for violence. There is some violence at parts in the story so if that is an issue for you be warned.
I received an arc digital copy but my opinions are honest and my own.
January 15, 2024
This was a wonderful novella about the dangers and repercussions of time travel. The execution of how those changes come about is excellent. Something is, was, and has always happened. It's wonderful.
December 7, 2021
An interesting time travel tale. It has an interesting premise and includes some nice suspense. I stayed engaged and thought it was pretty well executed. A lot of time travel fans will like this one.
I really appreciate the free review copy!!
I really appreciate the free review copy!!
October 22, 2021
Perfect mixture of intellect, action, and heart! Read it!
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