“The only thing anomalous about me / Truda Becker / is that it took me too long to show anyone what I was made of / now they think I’m made of magic.” - Switch.
Tru Beck is a teenage girl from Pennsylvania who lives in a world that has become trapped in a fold of time and space, where “real” time has stopped but humanity continues to mark artificial time based on a website called N3WCLOCK.com. Tru lives in a house that has a switch at its center. No one knows what the switch controls, but her father continually builds larger and larger boxes around the switch. Tru leaves the box through a Tru-shaped hole to go to school, where she pays no attention to the new “Solution Time” curriculum. In fact, the only interesting thing that’s ever happened to her there is when she discovers that she can throw a javelin father than any human ever has throughout human history.
Thank you to Dutton and Penguin Random House for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review! I have heard so much about A.S. King so I was excited to read this and see what they are about! This story follows Tru who, along with the entire planet, is stuck in a time fold. No one knows why this happened but everyone attempts to carry on like normal on this new time schedule. At the same time, Tru’s father starts to build box after box in their home in order to conceal a mysterious switch. The premise of this book was super interesting and I thought the idea of it was so unique! However, this story was a bit so-so for me. There is a lot I liked about it, and some that I felt was lacking. I wish some things were explained a bit more about this time fold, and I wish the characters and family dynamics were expanded upon (especially since that seems to be a major theme of the book). I did enjoy the way/ style this book was written in though. Overall, while this wasn’t quite my cup of tea, I do want to check out some of A.S. King’s backlist books that have been on my TBR.
Tru Beck is a teenage girl from Pennsylvania who lives in a world that has become trapped in a fold of time and space, where “real” time has stopped but humanity continues to mark artificial time based on a website called N3WCLOCK.com. Tru lives in a house that has a switch at its center. No one knows what the switch controls, but her father continually builds larger and larger boxes around the switch. Tru leaves the box through a Tru-shaped hole to go to school, where she pays no attention to the new “Solution Time” curriculum. In fact, the only interesting thing that’s ever happened to her there is when she discovers that she can throw a javelin father than any human ever has throughout human history.
Thank you to Dutton and Penguin Random House for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review! I have heard so much about A.S. King so I was excited to read this and see what they are about! This story follows Tru who, along with the entire planet, is stuck in a time fold. No one knows why this happened but everyone attempts to carry on like normal on this new time schedule. At the same time, Tru’s father starts to build box after box in their home in order to conceal a mysterious switch. The premise of this book was super interesting and I thought the idea of it was so unique! However, this story was a bit so-so for me. There is a lot I liked about it, and some that I felt was lacking. I wish some things were explained a bit more about this time fold, and I wish the characters and family dynamics were expanded upon (especially since that seems to be a major theme of the book). I did enjoy the way/ style this book was written in though. Overall, while this wasn’t quite my cup of tea, I do want to check out some of A.S. King’s backlist books that have been on my TBR.