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A review by sunrays118
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
3.0
A book about a collection of women involved in time travel, this book is not your typical time travel story.
For some reasons that’s great - you immediately get past the sticking points most stories wrestle with. Instead, you get this odd who done it book that never feels resolved or deep.
I wanted to like this book but it wasn’t until I was 71% finished that I found it remotely interesting. The characters all fell completely flat for me. No character had realistic emotions or motivations. I found the timelines entirely suspect. The plot felt hollow and so contrived as to be pointless. The massive death happens and they slow a detective of the shortest tenure to solve the easy case that no one else wants? It doesn’t make sense. The relationships which are supposed to be romantic feel like one liners.
Honestly, it’s like the author couldn’t grasp time and failed to invest in the parts of the story that matter.
For some reasons that’s great - you immediately get past the sticking points most stories wrestle with. Instead, you get this odd who done it book that never feels resolved or deep.
I wanted to like this book but it wasn’t until I was 71% finished that I found it remotely interesting. The characters all fell completely flat for me. No character had realistic emotions or motivations. I found the timelines entirely suspect. The plot felt hollow and so contrived as to be pointless. The massive death happens and they slow a detective of the shortest tenure to solve the easy case that no one else wants? It doesn’t make sense. The relationships which are supposed to be romantic feel like one liners.
Honestly, it’s like the author couldn’t grasp time and failed to invest in the parts of the story that matter.