Reviews
This book was fantastic! Very thought provoking and fascinating. I loved the timeliness of the LHC experiments. I know that it is going to become a tv show and I can't wait to see what they do with it!
A really fascinating idea pulled off in an extraordinarily boring fashion. Humanity experiences a strange "flash forward" where everyone gets to see two minutes of their future decades in the future. One would think the repercussions of this would be fascinating, but really the book plods along without actually touching on anything too exciting. One person is now unsure whether he should marry his girlfriend because they might divorce in the future. Another discovers he will be murdered and tries to figure out how to prevent his death (spoilers: it's not very exciting). Finally, the book flashes forward to the future where things are generally ok, and another flash forward occurs that is substantially more interesting, but Sawyer doesn't talk about it much. A lot of talking and muted feels for a book filled with such fantastic occurrences T___T
I heard about it on the back of the TV show. Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson were talking about it on Security Now. I was an enjoyable book in a similar vein to Dan Brown. There was some good science in it which, to a non-science person like me, seems to have been well researched. I always enjoy books that make me think, and time travel is a thing that really fascinates me. It was dealt with very well in this novel, but it wasn't turgid to the point where the story was lost or the pace was slowed down. I give it three stars.
Esperaba demasiado de este libro (después de haber visto la serie, injustamente cancelada) y fue una gran decepción. Los personajes no están logrados y se torna aburrido y predecible.
** spoiler alert ** I was actually pretty disappointed, since this book & author had been recommended to me by a fellow attendee of the sci-fi/fantasy track at Dragon Con. The writing felt clunky. To be perfectly honest, it felt like a rough draft, something that had been written hastily and submitted without being edited. Many of the writing tips that I’ve heard from many teachers and writing coaches — don’t info-dump, don’t use passive voice, don’t repeatedly refer to characters by their first AND last names — are shamelessly broken in this story. And the single chapter with an “action sequence” was even more egregiously clunky than the rest. If I hadn’t known who the author was, I would have guessed that this was an unedited NaNoWriMo manuscript, extra words scattered throughout that didn’t add much to the story. Content warning: There is a lengthy description of a suicide attempt about midway through the book, which the reader later learns was successful. I did not personally find it triggering, but someone who has had suicidal thoughts or attempts might be deeply affected (negatively) by this scene.
