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A review by lawbooks600
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
4.0
Trigger warnings: Gun violence, hospitalisation, blood depiction, emesis, surgery, imprisonment, physical injury, murder, death of a friend, suicide, grief and loss depiction, kidnapping, death of parents
Note that I bought this book and now I own it.
7/10, last year I purchased this book since one of the two libraries I go to gave this book away since it was too old or only few people read it before I did and to be honest after reading some ok fantasy books to say the least I switched to sci-fi and I'm glad I read this because this was a step up from the last novels however... I still think it could've received improvements here and there but it was otherwise an enjoyable read. Where do I begin? It starts with the main character Em whose full and last name I don't even know and not long after that it was already action-packed as she used a spoon out of all things to escape prison but I'm not sure why she got in there in the first place and now she meets this other major character called Finn. Only a few pages later they discover a time machine and so they travel four years back to alter the past to change the future and all they have to do is to kill another guy called James. Sounds simple right? No. This is where the book turns into a slow burn with much more steady pacing and it got more intriguing when it introduced another POV from Marina and everything looked normal for her until Em came along to start her mission, Nate got shot on live TV and it all fell apart from there. Apparently Nate was necessary to the plot since there were some clues involving him that led Em to the antagonist James who will ruin the world in the future and she tried to kill him. Multiple times. But it didn't work, he just got away somehow and only towards the end of the book there was another James somehow, one character killed himself and it was all an unclear mess at the end and oh did I mention the characters weren't the most fleshed out people ever? Wow. That's a low note. Also there's a sequel but I have no idea what it was about and the library that used to have this probably won't get it considering they got their last batch this year.
Note that I bought this book and now I own it.
7/10, last year I purchased this book since one of the two libraries I go to gave this book away since it was too old or only few people read it before I did and to be honest after reading some ok fantasy books to say the least I switched to sci-fi and I'm glad I read this because this was a step up from the last novels however... I still think it could've received improvements here and there but it was otherwise an enjoyable read. Where do I begin? It starts with the main character Em whose full and last name I don't even know and not long after that it was already action-packed as she used a spoon out of all things to escape prison but I'm not sure why she got in there in the first place and now she meets this other major character called Finn. Only a few pages later they discover a time machine and so they travel four years back to alter the past to change the future and all they have to do is to kill another guy called James. Sounds simple right? No. This is where the book turns into a slow burn with much more steady pacing and it got more intriguing when it introduced another POV from Marina and everything looked normal for her until Em came along to start her mission, Nate got shot on live TV and it all fell apart from there. Apparently Nate was necessary to the plot since there were some clues involving him that led Em to the antagonist James who will ruin the world in the future and she tried to kill him. Multiple times. But it didn't work, he just got away somehow and only towards the end of the book there was another James somehow, one character killed himself and it was all an unclear mess at the end and oh did I mention the characters weren't the most fleshed out people ever? Wow. That's a low note. Also there's a sequel but I have no idea what it was about and the library that used to have this probably won't get it considering they got their last batch this year.