Control the past.Save the future. One morning, Dr. Sam Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he loves has been murdered. For Sam, the horror is only beginning. He and his daughter are accused of the crime. The evidence is ironclad. They will be convicted. And so, to ensure his daughter goes free, Sam does what he must: he confesses. But in the future, murderers aren't sent to prison. Thanks to a machine Sam helped invent, the world's worst criminals are now sent to the past – approximately 200 million years into the past, to the dawn of the time of the dinosaurs – where they must live out their lives alone, in exile from the human race. Sam accepts his fate. But his daughter doesn't. Adeline Anderson has already lost her mother to a deadly, unfair disease. She can't bear to lose her father as well. So she sets out on a quest to prove him innocent. And to get him back. People around her insist that both are impossible tasks. But Adeline doesn't give up. She only works harder. She soon learns that impossible tasks are her specialty. And that she is made of tougher stuff than she ever imagined. As she peels back the layers of the mystery that tore her father from this world, Adeline finds more questions than answers. Everyone around her is hiding a secret. But which ones are connected to the murder that exiled her father?
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0Welp, I just don’t know how I feel.
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The book started slow, so slow that I couldn’t even read it. And then by the end, it as going so fast I could barely comprehend.
The twists and turns made my head hurts, and even after getting all the answers, I still don’t get it.
Time travel is such a hard topic to wrap a head around. I feel like there are some assumptions made in this book that just make it hard to get it.
The dad, Sam, whole role was frankly unnecessary. His time travel POV’s were not necessary to the story at whole. They only provided a glimpse to what was going on with him. Then halfway throughout the book, his POVs dropped off.
Adeline had a great storyline, and I loved the twists and turns of her characters. But I still don’t understand why? Why did she do what she did half the time? Her constitution swayed so much between who and what she trusted.
If you read this book, you have to hold out til the last half to get sucked in.
What I Liked:
• Twists
• Secrets
• Time travel
What I Didn’t:
• The machine didn’t make a whole lot of sense
• Bored
Read This If You Love:
• Science fiction
• Time travel
• Dinosaurs
Star: 2.5
0Interesting Concepts Yet Disjointed Storytelling. This is one of those books where there is nothing objectively wrong with it, and yet it also feels a bit disjointed. Separated into several parts, it could likely have been better separated into a trilogy, with the events of Parts 1 and 2 in one book, 3 and 4 in a second book, and 5 in a final book. Then you could expand each section out beyond what was presented in even these 400 pages (since you'd arguably need at least another couple hundred or so for a third book) and really make the effort to take a good tale into the stratosphere of being among the best in scifi. Overall the specific application of time travel here was one I hadn't seen in any form since the early 2000s era Jet Li movie The One, and even here the specific direction Riddle applies is unique in my experience and intriguing overall. Ultimately this is a good tale and well told, it just seemed like it could have been better with a different editing approach. Very much recommended.
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