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moistforchoice 's review for:
Paradox Bound
by Peter Clines
Fun, quirky, sci-fi themed adventure.
In true Clines’ style, Paradox Bound is a movie-level entertaining adventure that will make you nostalgic for Back To The Future, Doctor Who, and Supernatural, and any other of such shows you might have watched. We follow a time-traveller and an unassuming sidekick (true to his stereotype, Eli is a bumbling, faltering apprentice and a self-declared loser who makes mistakes that literally gets people killed) on their adventures all around America, but, like, in the past. It’s a wild road trip meeting all sorts of quirky characters. It’s a treasure hunt passed down through generations with an explanation for it conveniently waved away because paradoxes. You have to go through with the action because if you don’t, you create a paradox sort of thing.
I found it fun and the plot unique, but I put down the book feeling like I just watched a cheap movie on TV. It was entertaining while you’re at it, but you take away nothing. I admit I was a bit disappointed because I was expecting the plot to have more to do with paradoxes, as the title claimed, but it was only mentioned briefly in the story. It was probably my own biases.
Clines’ is however, undeniable good at keeping you glued to the book, even if it felt like he applied all the right formulae at the right places, like the cheap movie on TV I was talking about. The point is he done it really well and I was sucked in. I finished it in a few hours – it felt like I was part of the duo racing around time and space too, and I cheered for their victories. 3.5 stars for that
In true Clines’ style, Paradox Bound is a movie-level entertaining adventure that will make you nostalgic for Back To The Future, Doctor Who, and Supernatural, and any other of such shows you might have watched. We follow a time-traveller and an unassuming sidekick (true to his stereotype, Eli is a bumbling, faltering apprentice and a self-declared loser who makes mistakes that literally gets people killed) on their adventures all around America, but, like, in the past. It’s a wild road trip meeting all sorts of quirky characters. It’s a treasure hunt passed down through generations with an explanation for it conveniently waved away because paradoxes. You have to go through with the action because if you don’t, you create a paradox sort of thing.
I found it fun and the plot unique, but I put down the book feeling like I just watched a cheap movie on TV. It was entertaining while you’re at it, but you take away nothing. I admit I was a bit disappointed because I was expecting the plot to have more to do with paradoxes, as the title claimed, but it was only mentioned briefly in the story. It was probably my own biases.
Clines’ is however, undeniable good at keeping you glued to the book, even if it felt like he applied all the right formulae at the right places, like the cheap movie on TV I was talking about. The point is he done it really well and I was sucked in. I finished it in a few hours – it felt like I was part of the duo racing around time and space too, and I cheered for their victories. 3.5 stars for that