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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Bowie is my fave. This was delightful and fun and twisty and neatly science-driven
More time travel than love based. Avoided stereotypical time travel tropes. Really enjoyed!
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I know how it feels to be stuck in a loop, where you just can’t move forward.
Mike Chen gets it. His time-traveling love story shows us what happens when that loop is real—and catastrophe feels like the only outcome.
But what if it’s not? What if there’s a way through? And what does any of this have to do with quantum physics?
Everything.
Great cozy vibes with a love story that transcends time.
Mike Chen gets it. His time-traveling love story shows us what happens when that loop is real—and catastrophe feels like the only outcome.
But what if it’s not? What if there’s a way through? And what does any of this have to do with quantum physics?
Everything.
Great cozy vibes with a love story that transcends time.
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dnf @ 60%
Time Loop Science Fiction with a romance subplot sounded like a few sets of phrases specifically curated to catch my attention and boy, did it. I first heard about this book via a youtube video late at night when I was falling asleep and ten minutes later, I had the book available on my Books app.
A Quantum Love Story starts off with the pov of our mmc, Carter, taking us about his week, what he knows of the world so far and his first encounter with our FMC, effectively setting the atmosphere and environment we find ourself in. From thereon forth, the book switches to the FMC POV and we roll. But what I learnt from the book is that the need of doing something different every loop so you don't realise at the sheer boredom of it all is exactly what reading about a time loop may do.
The worst part about a time loop story is that it is exactly what it sounds like - every chapter sounds the same, has varying degrees of repetitiveness and the reader leaves with one new variable learnt about or introduced to bring the plot forward. With all that being said, I was nerding out so hard about the Particle Accelerator - my boyfriend was obsessed with one for years so I, by proxy, was excited about reading it in a book. The Sci-Fi aspect of this was right up my alley and with the added suspense of finding out exactly was going wrong, the plot for the first 25-30% was very smooth sailing - we were gathering information about the explosion and the new characters introduced kepy the flow going. The issue, ofcourse, is due to our mcs being the only ones that retain information, new characters have to begin all the development from the ground up each loop requiring all the responsibility of any banter to fall to the only two people who would get screentime in the book alongside our AI assistant.
In a perfect world, this book would have employed the friends to lovers trope to place the readers amongst MCs who are already comfortable with each other & have a degree of banter/familiarity (think the vibe of Happy Place wrt to established familiarity) but with a strangers to lovers trope which requires a lot of development from the author in any scenario, it clashes with the titular idea of the time loop - with two big ideas both of which need screentime to move the plot forward, the pace was thrown off for the development of each of these - we would go 3 chapters with a focus on scifi alongside mentions of lingering gazes and heartfelt moments that did the work of telling us the characters were falling in love but due to lack of pages to let that develop organically, the romance always felt off and the scifi got sidetracked due to the same.
The personalities felt very 2 dimension (again probably due to the lack of page space) with each main character hooking onto one/two traits and overusing it to the point of abuse - at some point, it's like "yeah, we get it, he's a foodie"
I believe that if these had been two separate books, I would have loved it. On the bright side, I enjoyed Mike Chen's writing very much and will definitely be picking up another book by them.
Recommended for readers who enjoy reading about food (all the conversations rang so true and heartfelt for someone who also loves cooking), learning to let go and dealing with grief admist a world-ending (not rlly) people-killing rip-in-the-time-space-time-loop explosion
Time Loop Science Fiction with a romance subplot sounded like a few sets of phrases specifically curated to catch my attention and boy, did it. I first heard about this book via a youtube video late at night when I was falling asleep and ten minutes later, I had the book available on my Books app.
A Quantum Love Story starts off with the pov of our mmc, Carter, taking us about his week, what he knows of the world so far and his first encounter with our FMC, effectively setting the atmosphere and environment we find ourself in. From thereon forth, the book switches to the FMC POV and we roll. But what I learnt from the book is that the need of doing something different every loop so you don't realise at the sheer boredom of it all is exactly what reading about a time loop may do.
The worst part about a time loop story is that it is exactly what it sounds like - every chapter sounds the same, has varying degrees of repetitiveness and the reader leaves with one new variable learnt about or introduced to bring the plot forward. With all that being said, I was nerding out so hard about the Particle Accelerator - my boyfriend was obsessed with one for years so I, by proxy, was excited about reading it in a book. The Sci-Fi aspect of this was right up my alley and with the added suspense of finding out exactly was going wrong, the plot for the first 25-30% was very smooth sailing - we were gathering information about the explosion and the new characters introduced kepy the flow going. The issue, ofcourse, is due to our mcs being the only ones that retain information, new characters have to begin all the development from the ground up each loop requiring all the responsibility of any banter to fall to the only two people who would get screentime in the book alongside our AI assistant.
In a perfect world, this book would have employed the friends to lovers trope to place the readers amongst MCs who are already comfortable with each other & have a degree of banter/familiarity (think the vibe of Happy Place wrt to established familiarity) but with a strangers to lovers trope which requires a lot of development from the author in any scenario, it clashes with the titular idea of the time loop - with two big ideas both of which need screentime to move the plot forward, the pace was thrown off for the development of each of these - we would go 3 chapters with a focus on scifi alongside mentions of lingering gazes and heartfelt moments that did the work of telling us the characters were falling in love but due to lack of pages to let that develop organically, the romance always felt off and the scifi got sidetracked due to the same.
The personalities felt very 2 dimension (again probably due to the lack of page space) with each main character hooking onto one/two traits and overusing it to the point of abuse - at some point, it's like "yeah, we get it, he's a foodie"
I believe that if these had been two separate books, I would have loved it. On the bright side, I enjoyed Mike Chen's writing very much and will definitely be picking up another book by them.
Recommended for readers who enjoy reading about food (all the conversations rang so true and heartfelt for someone who also loves cooking), learning to let go and dealing with grief admist a world-ending (not rlly) people-killing rip-in-the-time-space-time-loop explosion
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
There was a lull after Carter's departure from the narrative but still a good read.