Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen

1 review

bel017's review

hopeful inspiring reflective sad

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

I really enjoyed this meditation on the frustrations of being a small cog in an overwhelmingly large machine.
I love that I read an entire book where the main character's

name is Quinoa. That made me laugh :)

. While I noticed the devices used to plug holes in the time-travelling story, I felt they were sufficiently well woven in. The world building was excellent - every time I had to stop reading I found it hard to get my head back in the real world. So saying, I did find I could put the book down, as it was predictable and not too tense. Which was great for me, but the tag line of 'anywhere and any-when' makes it sound like it's going to be more of a fast paced adventure all over the timeline, so I think that tag line sets readers up for disappointment. This isn't Timeless. It's a story about frustration and family and compassion and compromise. The time travel is a device to facilitate the story, rather than the point of it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Abandonment, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Medical content, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Car accident