A unique take on time travel and women's rights through history
This is a strange one. Told in a radically shifting span of time (anchored in the 1990s but bouncing back and forth between 2022 and 1893 with occasional forays into the way-back past), this story addresses the intricacies of time travel in a way I haven't really seen before. Our characters are setting out to alter time in small ways - because the big ones are all but inevitable - but these small changes end up making a huge impact on their present.
Tess is a time traveler who specializes in the late 19th century and women's rights in that tumultuous time. Beth is a teenager in the 1990s who is discovering independence and trying to free herself from toxic relationships. We get Beth's life as kind of a baseline to see how Tess's edits come into effect. It's honestly a really genius idea. I also really love seeing the growth of radical feminism through the ages - particularly in times (past and present) when women have very few rights.
However, it felt very scattered. I liked the baseline of Beth because Tess's storyline seemed to be all over the place. Each thing she did involved a lot of traveling and skipping time and meeting lots of different people. I think this would be a great story for history lovers (which I am not) and it has something for sci-fi nerds as well (which I definitely am)
Tess is a time traveler who specializes in the late 19th century and women's rights in that tumultuous time. Beth is a teenager in the 1990s who is discovering independence and trying to free herself from toxic relationships. We get Beth's life as kind of a baseline to see how Tess's edits come into effect. It's honestly a really genius idea. I also really love seeing the growth of radical feminism through the ages - particularly in times (past and present) when women have very few rights.
However, it felt very scattered. I liked the baseline of Beth because Tess's storyline seemed to be all over the place. Each thing she did involved a lot of traveling and skipping time and meeting lots of different people. I think this would be a great story for history lovers (which I am not) and it has something for sci-fi nerds as well (which I definitely am)