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A review by kurenai
In Times Like These by Nathan Van Coops
3.0
Goodreads winner.
I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to review this book. I think it has a lot of potential to be good but it feels like a first book where the author is still trying to sort out his own voice and when he wavers, I (as the reader) waver, too. I like the idea of this book very much. I like the world-building where time travel is not stuck in sci-fi techno-words, the characters feel like separate and real entities rather than cardboard cutouts there to move the plot along and yet... and yet... I just think there are too many characters to try and focus on. It's ultimately leading me to my interests splintering and waning into indifference the further along I go.
My bookmark sits at the halfway mark and I'm having a hard time wanting to pick it back up. I see many high ratings for this book and another review even mentions how slow the first part of this book is - and it's true! - so I suspect all the good, juicy action adventure scenes are later on but I jut can't seem to find myself trying to get over this hurdle of disinterest. I feel incredibly guilty saying that for now I think I need to put this book down for a bit and potentially pick it up in the future. I'm sorry.
I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to review this book. I think it has a lot of potential to be good but it feels like a first book where the author is still trying to sort out his own voice and when he wavers, I (as the reader) waver, too. I like the idea of this book very much. I like the world-building where time travel is not stuck in sci-fi techno-words, the characters feel like separate and real entities rather than cardboard cutouts there to move the plot along and yet... and yet... I just think there are too many characters to try and focus on. It's ultimately leading me to my interests splintering and waning into indifference the further along I go.
My bookmark sits at the halfway mark and I'm having a hard time wanting to pick it back up. I see many high ratings for this book and another review even mentions how slow the first part of this book is - and it's true! - so I suspect all the good, juicy action adventure scenes are later on but I jut can't seem to find myself trying to get over this hurdle of disinterest. I feel incredibly guilty saying that for now I think I need to put this book down for a bit and potentially pick it up in the future. I'm sorry.