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emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
A clever and utterly addictive tale about a father and daughter—200 million years apart—trying to unravel a murder mystery across time. Full of high stakes action, dinosaurs and more plot twists than an M. Night Shyamalan movie, Lost In Time is a time travel centric, techno-thriller that, despite its grandiose ideas and mulitiple interwoven timelines (and universes) is a fairly light and easily digestible read that I thoroughly enjoyed.
It’s set in a (not too distant) future where a state of the art machine which allows governments to send the worst criminals of society (terrorists, serial killers and dictators) into millions of years into the past of a another timeline.
Dr Sam Anderson is one of the founders of ABSOLOM, the company that invented the machine that can send people into the past, but when he and his daughter are framed for the murder of his co-worker/ lover, Sam’s invention will become his undoing. In order to save his daughter, Sam confesses to a murder he didn’t commit and finds himself 201 million years into the past—in the midst of a mass extinction event.
Having lost her mother to Cancer three years ago, Adeline refuses to lose her father too, plunging herself into an all consuming quest to prove her father’s not the killer and more importantly, to find a way to bring him back. Everyone is a suspect, everyone has secrets. And what Adeline uncovers will change everything…
This was such an gripping read! I’m fairly new to the Sci-fi genre so I very much enjoyed how easy to read and straightforward the science/ tech aspects were. The short chapters were also well appreciated and definitely contributed to my super late binge reading sessions—although, given how incredible the twists were, the late nights were absolutely worth it.
The intricately woven narrative is told through two POVs (Sam and Adeline’s) and alternate between multiple timelines that really picks up in the second half of the book and doesn’t let up at all until the conclusion. I can’t go into to too much detail without accidentally dropping spoilers, but I can say that things do eventually make sense and the intrigue, action and suspense were all worth it in the end.
The characters were all very believable and realistic but I definitely had a soft spot for Adeline. She’s a flawed yet relatable character and I loved how she deftly navigates each and every situation she encounters no matter how complex or daunting it may be. Likewise, the struggles of the other characters were also well written and felt organic to each individual—Elliot’s grief was particularly emotional and the contrast in his and Sam’s own period of mourning really highlighted that everyone processes grief and trauma differently.
Overall, Lost In Time was an addictive, fun and fairly quick mystery that fans of plot twisty, time travel stories or Michael Critchon are bound to enjoy.
A massive thank you to Head Of Zeus and Black Crow PR for the finished copy.
It’s set in a (not too distant) future where a state of the art machine which allows governments to send the worst criminals of society (terrorists, serial killers and dictators) into millions of years into the past of a another timeline.
Dr Sam Anderson is one of the founders of ABSOLOM, the company that invented the machine that can send people into the past, but when he and his daughter are framed for the murder of his co-worker/ lover, Sam’s invention will become his undoing. In order to save his daughter, Sam confesses to a murder he didn’t commit and finds himself 201 million years into the past—in the midst of a mass extinction event.
Having lost her mother to Cancer three years ago, Adeline refuses to lose her father too, plunging herself into an all consuming quest to prove her father’s not the killer and more importantly, to find a way to bring him back. Everyone is a suspect, everyone has secrets. And what Adeline uncovers will change everything…
This was such an gripping read! I’m fairly new to the Sci-fi genre so I very much enjoyed how easy to read and straightforward the science/ tech aspects were. The short chapters were also well appreciated and definitely contributed to my super late binge reading sessions—although, given how incredible the twists were, the late nights were absolutely worth it.
The intricately woven narrative is told through two POVs (Sam and Adeline’s) and alternate between multiple timelines that really picks up in the second half of the book and doesn’t let up at all until the conclusion. I can’t go into to too much detail without accidentally dropping spoilers, but I can say that things do eventually make sense and the intrigue, action and suspense were all worth it in the end.
The characters were all very believable and realistic but I definitely had a soft spot for Adeline. She’s a flawed yet relatable character and I loved how she deftly navigates each and every situation she encounters no matter how complex or daunting it may be. Likewise, the struggles of the other characters were also well written and felt organic to each individual—Elliot’s grief was particularly emotional and the contrast in his and Sam’s own period of mourning really highlighted that everyone processes grief and trauma differently.
Overall, Lost In Time was an addictive, fun and fairly quick mystery that fans of plot twisty, time travel stories or Michael Critchon are bound to enjoy.
A massive thank you to Head Of Zeus and Black Crow PR for the finished copy.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent and Grief
Moderate: Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Car accident
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