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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Thank you @crookedlanebooks for my beautiful finished copy of THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TIME TRAVEL.
Anything to do with time travel and I’m sold! I’m such a sucker for these stories. I love to see what the author does with the possibilities of time travel and the effects it has on people. So basically, the cover and title of this book had me at first sight.
The story unfolds with three time-lines. We have the four women who pioneer time travel in the 1970s and the mental breakdown of one of these women. The story then jumps ahead to late 2017 and early 2018 where one of the women has died and the mystery of that death is unraveling. It was quite easy to follow as each of the timelines center around a character.
Mascarenhas uses a cast vastly made up of women and the story is well layered and thought provoking. This book reminded me a bit of Dark Matter at times. In the sense that you can have multi-selves at one time. Such a chilling thought!
Unique, inventive and easy to read I give this 3.5 stars.
Anything to do with time travel and I’m sold! I’m such a sucker for these stories. I love to see what the author does with the possibilities of time travel and the effects it has on people. So basically, the cover and title of this book had me at first sight.
The story unfolds with three time-lines. We have the four women who pioneer time travel in the 1970s and the mental breakdown of one of these women. The story then jumps ahead to late 2017 and early 2018 where one of the women has died and the mystery of that death is unraveling. It was quite easy to follow as each of the timelines center around a character.
Mascarenhas uses a cast vastly made up of women and the story is well layered and thought provoking. This book reminded me a bit of Dark Matter at times. In the sense that you can have multi-selves at one time. Such a chilling thought!
Unique, inventive and easy to read I give this 3.5 stars.
What is this book about?
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In the 60s, 4 women built a time travelling machine. Half a century later one of them is killed under mysterious circumstances that could only be explained if time travel is involved.
This is a story about women, their lives, their loves, their struggle for significance in a World turned upside down by the invention of a time machine, and the way in which their lives are intertwined by time travel.
Overall impression?
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I wish there were more books like this. Ones in which women are the saviours, the villains, the lovers, bystanders, without having to resort to the "strength" of masculinity or their perceived ability to always be logical problem solvers of a story.
The characters were mostly strong, some annoyingly weak, but still well developed.
As a whodunit, I wouldn't say it was a strong story. There were bits of foreshadowing and random happenstance that gave away the ending and made it more difficult to reach the end of the book.
Who will love this book?
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1. If you enjoy a whodunit, then this might be for you. The ending is given away early, but I think it is still interesting to get to find out the hows and whys and whens.
2. People interested in time-travel who aren't going to ask too many science-y questions.
3. Time travel enthusiasts who wonder how time travel could work without offending the almighty "grandfather paradox".
4. Lovers of Psychology.
↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
***** SPOILERS AHEAD *****
*******SPOILERS BEGINNING - Watch out! ******
↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
Stuff I liked
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1. Varied characters with varied backgrounds and ideas and goals.
2. Learning a bunch of new words and phrases. Dowager's hump? Who knew?
3. Acausal matter!!! What?!
4. The storytelling.
Stuff that made me hmmmmm
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1. I was struck by the idea of falling in love with someone and then going to have sex with another person as a way to sort out one's feelings? Strange.
2. Odette's fragility and her sudden rise in the ranks at the conclave so that she's asking people to get her information and boldly going where her timid ass should not be going. What happened to the embargo? Did I miss that part? And getting on such a high profile case as a newbie?
3. So many doggone characters. For real. I felt schitzoidal (if that is a word) having been in all these people's heads and thinking their thoughts with them and feeling their feelings.
Stuff I didn't like
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1. I don't know whether it was just the formatting in the ARC, but ARRRRRGGG!!! Many times I found myself confused about who was talking. No separation in paragraphs. It slowed me down and was quite frustrating.
2. Non-essential stuff being included. If I didn't know how Bee made the fuel into a liquid, the story would not have been ruined. There were also other segues into psych information that slowed the story down when all I wanted to know was how people were going to react.
3. The way that Ruby's innocence was determined. Really? Everything else is complicated and I'm taking time to figure it out and understand how things work (including the liquid fuel) and yet the judge asks 3 questions that have nothing to do with the case? How sway? It just seemed so ridiculous and Disney-land ending.
4. Lucille had no voice, no character, no life really, no information about the black scientist character. She was an emptiness in which anything was poured so we could remember that she was there.
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In the 60s, 4 women built a time travelling machine. Half a century later one of them is killed under mysterious circumstances that could only be explained if time travel is involved.
This is a story about women, their lives, their loves, their struggle for significance in a World turned upside down by the invention of a time machine, and the way in which their lives are intertwined by time travel.
Overall impression?
---------------------
I wish there were more books like this. Ones in which women are the saviours, the villains, the lovers, bystanders, without having to resort to the "strength" of masculinity or their perceived ability to always be logical problem solvers of a story.
The characters were mostly strong, some annoyingly weak, but still well developed.
As a whodunit, I wouldn't say it was a strong story. There were bits of foreshadowing and random happenstance that gave away the ending and made it more difficult to reach the end of the book.
Who will love this book?
---------------------------
1. If you enjoy a whodunit, then this might be for you. The ending is given away early, but I think it is still interesting to get to find out the hows and whys and whens.
2. People interested in time-travel who aren't going to ask too many science-y questions.
3. Time travel enthusiasts who wonder how time travel could work without offending the almighty "grandfather paradox".
4. Lovers of Psychology.
↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
***** SPOILERS AHEAD *****
*******SPOILERS BEGINNING - Watch out! ******
↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
Stuff I liked
-------------
1. Varied characters with varied backgrounds and ideas and goals.
2. Learning a bunch of new words and phrases. Dowager's hump? Who knew?
3. Acausal matter!!! What?!
4. The storytelling.
Stuff that made me hmmmmm
----------------------------------
1. I was struck by the idea of falling in love with someone and then going to have sex with another person as a way to sort out one's feelings? Strange.
2. Odette's fragility and her sudden rise in the ranks at the conclave so that she's asking people to get her information and boldly going where her timid ass should not be going. What happened to the embargo? Did I miss that part? And getting on such a high profile case as a newbie?
3. So many doggone characters. For real. I felt schitzoidal (if that is a word) having been in all these people's heads and thinking their thoughts with them and feeling their feelings.
Stuff I didn't like
-----------------
1. I don't know whether it was just the formatting in the ARC, but ARRRRRGGG!!! Many times I found myself confused about who was talking. No separation in paragraphs. It slowed me down and was quite frustrating.
2. Non-essential stuff being included. If I didn't know how Bee made the fuel into a liquid, the story would not have been ruined. There were also other segues into psych information that slowed the story down when all I wanted to know was how people were going to react.
3. The way that Ruby's innocence was determined. Really? Everything else is complicated and I'm taking time to figure it out and understand how things work (including the liquid fuel) and yet the judge asks 3 questions that have nothing to do with the case? How sway? It just seemed so ridiculous and Disney-land ending.
4. Lucille had no voice, no character, no life really, no information about the black scientist character. She was an emptiness in which anything was poured so we could remember that she was there.
challenging
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
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:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I like the questions raised in TPoTT, but I think the book suffers from its time travel conventions resulting in an ending that didn't quite rise to the setup. The story is driven forward by a murder mystery and a large cast of characters. It had me turning the pages, but the tension felt manufactured by its short chapters. If I were being generous, I could accept that the jumpy POVs are a device to give the reader a feel for the displacement time travelers experience, but I had minimal investment in the characters.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'd say 3.5 stars actually.
It was a pretty decent book! I liked the murder mystery element and the author feeds in tiny details throughout so you can make a judgement on it at any point. The time travelling element confused me a little bit with the logistics of it but that might just be me tbh. Grace and Ruby are the BEST couple ever as well they are adorable
It was a pretty decent book! I liked the murder mystery element and the author feeds in tiny details throughout so you can make a judgement on it at any point. The time travelling element confused me a little bit with the logistics of it but that might just be me tbh. Grace and Ruby are the BEST couple ever as well they are adorable