Book Review: Timebound.

[nwhiker]

I got this one for free for my Kindle. It was the (one of the?) Amazon Breakthrough novel(?)s for last year.

And it was quite good. I was surprised.

See, mostly I feel that Very Few authors can do time travel well. That very few many actually be like, three. So it was quite a nice surprise that this one was so good.


Nutshell story is that Kate can travel through time, and needs to repair the timeline. They know the timeline has been tampered with because there is a safe house that is protected from timeline shifts. Again, reasonably well done.

What I did not like. At one point, Kate loses her parents to a timeshift and is strangely unaffected by this. Yes, she's sad, but hello? Both parents, gone? Her reaction seems very academic and yes, I get "shock" but in a teenage girl (or boy for that matter), I'd expect more overt pain.

The romance was ok. A bit dippy/drippy, but not the the worse I have read recently, and part enough of the plot that it was all right. I also liked the very clear acknowledgement of sexual desire, without there being sex, it felt very real and mature, while still acknowledging teen hormones.

The author is a historian, and it shows. The glossed over but there details of the past setting, Chicago's World Fair were interesting, accurate, and added to the depth of the book, only rarely feeling like they were being given to show off knowledge, rather than part of the story, if that makes sense. Lots of fun there.


Since it was free, it was definitely worth what I paid for it! But seriously, it's pretty good, and if you have a kindle and some time for light time travel fluff, it was an enjoyable read.