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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
Timebound by Rysa Walker
4.0
Last year there was a reading challenge with a time traveling prompt. Well written time travel stories are not easy to find. Quite often it's not really time travel, but dimension travel and sometimes it's just playing around without making sense. I did stumble upon this series though, but I didn't have the funds to get it. And last week I all of a sudden saw Amazon having the series on sale for 5 euro per book. I had to have all three right away and I also had to start reading right away.
This book does time travel as it should be done. That does mean that it gets confusing and complicated at times. History is altered, timelines are reset, people can disappear and appear and a grandma can be born after her grandchild. It's not easy to constantly keep up, but it's worth it to just let things happen, to just accept that things work a certain way. Because the story is really exciting and how the time traveling is used is so well done.
Because if you know you can alter time. And if you know what will happen in the future because you've read about it or lived through it, that gives an endless amount of power. And while a lot of books are about people scared to change the future, because what if they erase their own existence, this book is all about changing the future. It's about changing the future on purpose and most of all with purpose.
And along the way we also land in an insanely interesting time period. The biggest time traveling part of the story takes place in Chicago during the time of the world expedition and the murder hotel. I have to admit that I'm only familiar with the scene because of Kerri Maniscalco's bookseries, but it was amazing to rediscover the location and the murder hotel and to learn a little more about it. I can't wait to see more of the past and future in the other two books in the series.
(The romance also got very very complicated, by the way. I can't wait to see how that will go in future books either!)
This book does time travel as it should be done. That does mean that it gets confusing and complicated at times. History is altered, timelines are reset, people can disappear and appear and a grandma can be born after her grandchild. It's not easy to constantly keep up, but it's worth it to just let things happen, to just accept that things work a certain way. Because the story is really exciting and how the time traveling is used is so well done.
Because if you know you can alter time. And if you know what will happen in the future because you've read about it or lived through it, that gives an endless amount of power. And while a lot of books are about people scared to change the future, because what if they erase their own existence, this book is all about changing the future. It's about changing the future on purpose and most of all with purpose.
And along the way we also land in an insanely interesting time period. The biggest time traveling part of the story takes place in Chicago during the time of the world expedition and the murder hotel. I have to admit that I'm only familiar with the scene because of Kerri Maniscalco's bookseries, but it was amazing to rediscover the location and the murder hotel and to learn a little more about it. I can't wait to see more of the past and future in the other two books in the series.
(The romance also got very very complicated, by the way. I can't wait to see how that will go in future books either!)