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A review by tiggum
Summer of Love: A Time Travel by Lisa Mason
2.0
I avoided reading this book for a long time because something about the title put me off. I can't explain it, I just don't like it. But at first it seemed that I was wrong to judge this particular book by its cover. It starts a little slowly but soon picks up, and manages to get well past the half-way point before it goes wrong.
For over half the book, the author had resisted the temptation to explain time travel, and that was great. We knew basically what Chiron was there to do, we didn't need to know the technical details. In fact, I wish I didn't know the technical details because they're dumb as fuck. And the last quarter of the book gets dragged way down by this ridiculous bullshit.
I wish I could give this book a higher rating, but it's not just peripheral details, the time travel bullshit becomes irrevocably entangled with the plot, and it just left me irritated and unsatisfied.
For over half the book, the author had resisted the temptation to explain time travel, and that was great. We knew basically what Chiron was there to do, we didn't need to know the technical details. In fact, I wish I didn't know the technical details because they're dumb as fuck. And the last quarter of the book gets dragged way down by this ridiculous bullshit.
I wish I could give this book a higher rating, but it's not just peripheral details, the time travel bullshit becomes irrevocably entangled with the plot, and it just left me irritated and unsatisfied.