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A review by laurafigueiredo
Summer of Love: A Time Travel by Lisa Mason
4.0
I usually don't read time travel novels.
Why not? Well, I guess I expect them to be somewhat dull because the writer is focusing on making sense of the whole time travel set up - and how changes in the past affect to the future now - instead of developing good characters.
But here Mason managed to create great characters with a nice arc which make the story work.
And her writing style is also nice and appealing.
So I would say this is a really good book. Much much better than I expected.
But there are certain details that bothered me quite too much.
One of them were those entities called demons. They made no sense (other than forcing the storyline this or that way) and were quite silly to be honest.
The other one were the visions of the alternate world, which were absolutely unnecesary (other than forcing the characters to believe Chi's story, but the novel would have worked anyway if Susan belived him for sentimental reasons and Ruby simply remained skeptical).
These details looks too simplistic and kinda teen-ish, and for me they are the difference between a good book and a masterpiece.
Why not? Well, I guess I expect them to be somewhat dull because the writer is focusing on making sense of the whole time travel set up - and how changes in the past affect to the future now - instead of developing good characters.
But here Mason managed to create great characters with a nice arc which make the story work.
And her writing style is also nice and appealing.
So I would say this is a really good book. Much much better than I expected.
But there are certain details that bothered me quite too much.
One of them were those entities called demons. They made no sense (other than forcing the storyline this or that way) and were quite silly to be honest.
The other one were the visions of the alternate world, which were absolutely unnecesary (other than forcing the characters to believe Chi's story, but the novel would have worked anyway if Susan belived him for sentimental reasons and Ruby simply remained skeptical).
These details looks too simplistic and kinda teen-ish, and for me they are the difference between a good book and a masterpiece.