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The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

39 reviews

maresuju's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Classism

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

livfaergemann's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment

e_flah's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The Psychology of Time Travel was a gripping character-driven read. Mascarenhas deftly used the time travel component to make a really fascinating murder mystery that left me constantly revising my theory of who did it. The queer romance was icing on the cake.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Mental illness

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machenn's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

readwithria's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

The Psychology of Time Travel has some of the tightest writing I’ve ever read. Given that it’s a book about time travel, that was absolutely vital! 

Kate Mascarenhas somehow wrote a book about a mystery that gives you all of the information you would typically get in a trial without the trial. She also writes an incredibly tight time travel system with a closed loop (my favorite kind!) and clear rules for what is and isn’t possible. The passage of information from different versions of the same person is also done very well, and I thoroughly enjoyed all of the time travel aspects of the book!

What I didn’t like as much was the Ruby timeline, specifically toward the end of the book

with her romantic relationship with Grace

It felt a bit rushed, and I wish there had been even ten more pages of development.

All in all this book was really well written, but I don’t know if I was the target reader. The first half was really hard for me to get through, but once I did I flew through the second half. I think that because there was so much set up, and so many different chronologies to follow, it made it difficult for me to get invested in the book. I think this would make a really interesting miniseries, and that the visual medium would help convey where in time we are more easily than the chapter headings do.

Unrelated to anything that’s actually related to the writing or story, but all of the characters in the book were women and seeing a STEM field full of women made me so happy!

Would I recommend this book? Yes. Will I read it again? Probably not. 3.75 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gun violence

Moderate: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer and Car accident

thequiltyreader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

cheye13's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Eating disorder, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Violence, Stalking, and Alcohol

Many mental illnesses are mentioned or alluded to, but the specific illnesses of main characters are PTSD and Bipolar Disorder

mandkips's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Self harm, and Grief

Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, and Racism

towardinfinitybooks's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Gore, and Self harm

Minor: Bullying, Gun violence, and Racism

leialou's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Key Themes: 

Mental Health, Grief, Friendship, Death.

Best (or Worst) Moments: 

I found the best moments were those viewed from Audette's POV - just found it more interesting with the murder and mystery solving, and she had an agenda and clear goals which also helped. 

Was this Book What I Expected?: 

No - with it being called ‘the psychology of time travel’ I expected it to focus even more on psychology. I’m an MSc Psychology student so obviously love psychology so I think I would have enjoyed the book even more if it went into more detail about the actual psychology behind it all - not just basic ‘she would have had those mental health problems without time travel’. I know there was some explanation but just felt it wasn’t enough - but maybe that would be too much for someone without a background in psychology? 

Review: 

This book was okay - I enjoyed it but it just wasn’t what I was expecting and it kind of disappointed me as a result. 

Things to Research Further 

The concept of how time travel could impact a person psychologically is so interesting - obviously not applicable until time-travel is a thing but would be such an interesting topic to study. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, and Toxic friendship