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The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

22 reviews

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

falchionm's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

seabass_drop'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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Eating disorder and Self harm

aardwyrm'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? Yes

4.0

The mystery, worldbuilding, and conceit carry the book to great heights of technical accomplishment. You never figure anything out until a moment before the characters do, but it always makes sense when you get there. The characters themselves are deeply strange, but they're supposed to be.

Dialogue is rather strangely arranged, with paragraph breaks in all the wrong places. Stylistically, this works to make the act of reading a sort of constant time travel itself. You're forever tracking back and forth to figure out who's talking. While it works on a meta level, the affectation does make reading kind of a weird mechanical experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Death, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

norwegianforestreader's review against another edition

dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Alcohol

sianjoinson's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Eating disorder, Self harm, and Grief

hazardous_hammer's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Moderate: Eating disorder and Self harm

Minor: Suicide

marlinspirkhall's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective 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

  (review from January 2020)

  Oh my God. I didn't have any idea what to expect going into this, and then this book gave me so much diversity, an engaging plot, fantastic characters and amazing writing. I fucking adored it. I asked my dad if he deliberately got me a book which festured lesbian and bisexual women as main characters and he said he just stumbled across it in the sci fi section at a bookstore.

  This book really inspired me and gave me lots of writing steam for this year, and I'll definitely be rereading it at some point. It took me just over a week to read and I remember bringing it to work one day, though I didn't get that far with it during my short lunch break. My phone battery started going on the fritz about this time, too, so it was nice to have something to do other than plug it in to charge and pray for the best.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Torture, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Biphobia, Homophobia, Self harm, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Toxic Friendship: This is pretty integral to the book- one character is treated badly by the others, and deliberately exluded. Hazing, Torture: In order to join the time-travellers, there are extensive hazing techniques in place, which includes playing the "Angel Of Death"

- whereby a character must tell a child that her father is about to die, terrifying her (and traumatising her for life).

Biphobia/homophobia:

Bisexual character discusses "avoiding certain timelines" because there are times in the future where society is biphobic. She describes it as "one step forwards one step back", which is certainly not a hopeful view of the future.

Fire/Fire Injury, Self harm:

Time travellers have seen that they will get injured in an accident in the future, and therefore willingly step into time machines which they know are about to explode.

Eating disorder: A character develops a specific fixation where she only feels able to eat a specific time and place,

so there are several versions of herself gathered in the park eating their packed lunches.

This is dealt with gently in the plot, but it is a fairly important checkpoint.

loppylolly's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Gaslighting

there are semi-graphic descriptions of playing with organs