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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
4.0
In a way I'm still in the middle of my detective mood and in a way I'm noticing I'm also in a sci-fi mood. So, when I received this book in my Valentine's Swap Package I could barely wait to get started. However, I had to finish a few review books first before I could dive in. Luckily I was on schedule this Monday and could finally give into my cravings to open this book and from start to finish it was a quite enjoyable read.
The thing I loved most about this book is the cleverness of the time travel and the entire mythology behind it. The story becomes quite complex because of all the possibilities and the fact that characters can influence the timeline (although not the outcome) and can appear at the same time at different ages. Every character can therefore appear at any time and any moment and in a complicated way they all play their part in whatever happens, even if it happened years after they were alive or before they were alive.
That might sound quite complicated, but I never had any trouble keeping up with the story, the plot and the characters. Because even though the time travel mythology is complicated, the story is written everything but complicated. The chapters are very short and a date stamp and name(s) assure that we always know at what time in the timeline we are and who the main characters in the chapter are. On top of that the English used is easy to read.
In a way the amount of characters and the straightforward storytelling make that we, the readers, are standing at a slight distance of the story. That means that I don't really feel emotionally connected to the characters. However, I don't think this story was about the emotional issues of the characters. The time travel, the murder mystery and all the different characters interacting and meeting at different times was more than interesting enough to have me hooked.
The thing I loved most about this book is the cleverness of the time travel and the entire mythology behind it. The story becomes quite complex because of all the possibilities and the fact that characters can influence the timeline (although not the outcome) and can appear at the same time at different ages. Every character can therefore appear at any time and any moment and in a complicated way they all play their part in whatever happens, even if it happened years after they were alive or before they were alive.
That might sound quite complicated, but I never had any trouble keeping up with the story, the plot and the characters. Because even though the time travel mythology is complicated, the story is written everything but complicated. The chapters are very short and a date stamp and name(s) assure that we always know at what time in the timeline we are and who the main characters in the chapter are. On top of that the English used is easy to read.
In a way the amount of characters and the straightforward storytelling make that we, the readers, are standing at a slight distance of the story. That means that I don't really feel emotionally connected to the characters. However, I don't think this story was about the emotional issues of the characters. The time travel, the murder mystery and all the different characters interacting and meeting at different times was more than interesting enough to have me hooked.