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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
2.75/5
Honestly I am still so confused and have questions about what happened by the end. It was a little bit all over the place while also together.
Honestly I am still so confused and have questions about what happened by the end. It was a little bit all over the place while also together.
3.5 stars. It was going to be a 4 until the ending. I feel like if left me hanging, and I don’t like that. I like having answers at the end of a stand alone novel, and this left me with more questions then answers which is not ideal.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I really like books with time travel even though I routinely get lost in the various time paradoxes. That's what happened this time too, but surely that's my problem. I admit that as far as I'm concerned this book started out very slow at first, due to "the groundhog day" effect that I hate so much, then the two characters got better and better and the pace of the story picked up as well. I don't agree with the plot twist used by the author, nor with the ending, but I can't help it.
Mi piacciono molto i libri con i viaggi nel tempo anche se mi perdo sistematicamente nei vari paradossi temporali. Anche stavolta é andata cosí, ma sicuramente é un problema mio. Ammetto che per quanto mi riguarda questo libro é partito inizialmente molto lento, l'effetto "giorno della marmotta" lo odio tantissimo, poi i due personaggi diventavano sempre migliori e si alzava anche il ritmo della storia. Non sono d'accordo sul plot twist utilizzato dall'autore, né sul finale, ma non ci posso fare niente.
adventurous
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Lovely
I enjoyed this but I do wish there had been a little more to the love story.
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Technician Carter Cho is stuck in a repeating loop of the same four days, and he's trying to find a way to get out. He got stuck when there was a catastrophic explosion in the accelerator created by the company he works at.
On one loop, meets Mariana Pineda, who's undergone memory treatments from the Relive corporation to help her keep her memories of her best friend/stepsister alive. She is a neuroscientist, and is there for a tour of the facility.
Carter pulls Mariana into the same time loop, and the two then spend many repetitions attempting to get out. Carter's eidetic memory and his habit of logging details in a notebook help him preserve memories from loop to loop, while Mariana's Relive treatments are what seem to help her keep each previous iteration in her memories.
While they set up tests and compare notes, they share parts of their lives with each other: Carter loves food, and introduces Mariana to a wide variety of new tastes, helping her appreciate things that were just brain fuel in the past. She shares her love of tennis and a desire to travel to London with him, and the deep grief she feels about her missing, likely dead, sister.
Mariana and Carter become close, developing feelings for each other. And then, Carter's memories begin fading, and Mariana realizes that she'll have to remember for the two of them, while they continue to try to find a way back to regular time.
I loved both of the characters, and how they shared parts of their pasts and interests with each other, and how carefully Mike Chen handled their slow romance. Artificial intelligences David, and later Bowie, provided science exposition, and much needed sarcasm, adding some levity in an increasingly dark situation.
The ideas behind quantum physics made for an interesting basis for this novel, and I liked how each new iteration was subtly different, keeping things quirky and slightly ominous at the same time.
How the situation is resolved is tragic, with Mariana making a pretty radical choice to save them both, while the death of a beloved pet completely undid me.
Mike Chen is adept at creating relatable and sympathetic characters dealing with extraordinary circumstances, and this was another enjoyable example of his skill and empathetic writing.
On one loop, meets Mariana Pineda, who's undergone memory treatments from the Relive corporation to help her keep her memories of her best friend/stepsister alive. She is a neuroscientist, and is there for a tour of the facility.
Carter pulls Mariana into the same time loop, and the two then spend many repetitions attempting to get out. Carter's eidetic memory and his habit of logging details in a notebook help him preserve memories from loop to loop, while Mariana's Relive treatments are what seem to help her keep each previous iteration in her memories.
While they set up tests and compare notes, they share parts of their lives with each other: Carter loves food, and introduces Mariana to a wide variety of new tastes, helping her appreciate things that were just brain fuel in the past. She shares her love of tennis and a desire to travel to London with him, and the deep grief she feels about her missing, likely dead, sister.
Mariana and Carter become close, developing feelings for each other. And then, Carter's memories begin fading, and Mariana realizes that she'll have to remember for the two of them, while they continue to try to find a way back to regular time.
I loved both of the characters, and how they shared parts of their pasts and interests with each other, and how carefully Mike Chen handled their slow romance. Artificial intelligences David, and later Bowie, provided science exposition, and much needed sarcasm, adding some levity in an increasingly dark situation.
The ideas behind quantum physics made for an interesting basis for this novel, and I liked how each new iteration was subtly different, keeping things quirky and slightly ominous at the same time.
How the situation is resolved is tragic, with Mariana making a pretty radical choice to save them both, while the death of a beloved pet completely undid me.
Mike Chen is adept at creating relatable and sympathetic characters dealing with extraordinary circumstances, and this was another enjoyable example of his skill and empathetic writing.
if I had a nickel for every 2024 release I've read with a science-heavy romance plot set in the near future where resurrected mammoths are a more or less significant plot point, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.