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Karen Akins

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I really wanted to like this one but it ended up a little flat for me. I thought it took far too long for the action to start. The last quarter of the book is really exciting but by then I wasn't as interested. I also got really confused with all the Past, Present and Future stuff. The time travel system itself is easy to follow but the weaving of the story left me in confusion.
I don't think I will be picking up the sequel.
 
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seriesousbooks | 7 andra recensioner | Feb 7, 2018 |

Are you BLARKING mad? blarking is future-speak for, well, I think you can guess..

Bree Bennis was so much fun, the time loop conundrum also made me think- a nice little twist to the are you or aren't you crazy? I really enjoyed the time travel bit with the changing timelines or not, and what happens if you do, and the pseudoscience behind all of it. I also loved that she was flawed and realized it- it's nice to think once our flaws are pointed out to ourselves we might have some chance of changing them.

This one kind of reminded me of Harry Potter, in that (s)he's thrown into something (s)he has no control over and in no way understands who's who, so misunderstandings will abound.

Though I will say that her love interest Finn is really nice, almost too nice- but there may be more history to their relationship that we haven't seen yet, in the past I mean, since we only get to see the future... [or the next installment].
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lollyletsgo | 7 andra recensioner | Aug 10, 2017 |
I LOVED this doulogy! SO smart and a fun quick read!

It was none stop from the beginning with all the time loops, and twists- a perfect Summer read (anytime really, it was really was alot of fun!)

It did lend itself to "but wait, if that changes in this timeline, does it affect X?" questions rolling around in my head..but still so much fun and so tightly written. It was a blast! I almost wish there were more adventures, but with some reservations, cause this was a great ending.
 
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lollyletsgo | Aug 10, 2017 |
It took me almost a month to finish this one, and that is usually a very bad sign. It wasn't all bad, and I mildly enjoyed it, but I definitely could have lived without it. I found the time-travel element with all of the "Future Me" and "Past Me" references very convoluted and confusing. If some tiny thing in the past gets changed, wouldn't that have incredibly far-reaching consequences? Gordon B. Hinckley told the story of a passenger train that started out in Oakland, CA headed to Newark, NJ. When the train reached Newark, it was discovered that the baggage car wasn't there. When the officials looked for the baggage car, they found that it had made it to St. Louis correctly, but a switchman in St. Louis carelessly moved a piece of steel 3 inches and then pulled a lever to uncouple the car. A baggage car that belonged in Newark, NJ, actually ended up in New Orleans, LA, 1500 miles away, just because of 3 inches. Isn't it the same concept for time travel? Any tiny change in the past would have huge ramifications hundreds of years later. A small change would become a great gap and things would end up far differently, so I found all the visits in time to fix things very distracting. I know the author discusses the Doctrine of Inevitability, but then doesn't really seem to stick to it very well. And I do know that you have to suspend belief a little bit when reading time travel books, but this one just seemed a lot more awkward than others I have read. Maybe that is the consequence of having read it so slowly.

However, the book was fun and exciting with a snarky heroine fighting against all odds. I thought the author did a good job of building the future world - the Pentagon was fun :) . From what I understand this is a duology, so I will probably go ahead and get the second book for the library and hope the kids will not be as befuddled by it all as I was.

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I don't remember any bad language, in fact the main character always substitutes the word "blark" or "blarking".
A couple of mild kisses.
Mildly intense action sequences.

http://read-me-maybe.blogspot.com
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