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I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends
by Kylie Lee Baker
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Thank you so much to Feiwel & Friends and Netgalley for an e-ARC. This book would make for such a cool animated movie in the style of Jentry Chau or American Dragon Jake Long. I enjoyed the vivid imagery that made me believe I was in Korea. The description of the place and the food was fantastic.
I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends is an endearing story about love, loss, self-love, and a whole lot of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. Mina is a teenager who is also a "Descendant". Basically, she has dragon blood in her that grants time-travel magic. She isn't fully dragon, but she also isn't human. In the beginning of the novel, Mina is motivated by her desire to get promoted to higher security clearance so she can look into what happened to her sister, Hana. The only thing Mina knows, and the biggest thing that keeps her going, is a note that Hana left her when she moved into her new apartment with her parents that said "when you are ready, come and find me." This kicks off Mina's desire to complete her missions successfully so she can eventually gain the trust of her boss and gain access to Hana's location. Mina is refreshingly honest. Her flaws are endearing, but she is not self-deprecating. She is the first YA protagonist I have read in a while that, despite devastating revelations, is able to keep going.
Because of her honesty, a love triangle never developed. Which, is again, refreshing for a YA novel. Yejun was a fantastic foil to Mina. The twists and turns for their relationship was fascinating. The novel is told in a fractured manner, because of time travel stuff. But, all of the loose ends are tied up by the end. Overall, this was a highly enjoyable standalone!
I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends is an endearing story about love, loss, self-love, and a whole lot of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. Mina is a teenager who is also a "Descendant". Basically, she has dragon blood in her that grants time-travel magic. She isn't fully dragon, but she also isn't human. In the beginning of the novel, Mina is motivated by her desire to get promoted to higher security clearance so she can look into what happened to her sister, Hana. The only thing Mina knows, and the biggest thing that keeps her going, is a note that Hana left her when she moved into her new apartment with her parents that said "when you are ready, come and find me." This kicks off Mina's desire to complete her missions successfully so she can eventually gain the trust of her boss and gain access to Hana's location. Mina is refreshingly honest. Her flaws are endearing, but she is not self-deprecating. She is the first YA protagonist I have read in a while that, despite devastating revelations, is able to keep going.
Because of her honesty, a love triangle never developed. Which, is again, refreshing for a YA novel. Yejun was a fantastic foil to Mina. The twists and turns for their relationship was fascinating. The novel is told in a fractured manner, because of time travel stuff. But, all of the loose ends are tied up by the end. Overall, this was a highly enjoyable standalone!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Blood, War