Feminist Marty McFly and Doc...with murder!
Turn Marty McFly and Doc into women with an ax to grind, and you get The Future of Another Timeline! I found this to be a quick, entertaining read.
Sometimes, I'm skeptical of time travel books because they skip around too quickly and I get disoriented. Thankfully, this wasn't the case here. Newitz is careful to make sure we're oriented to time and place.
I thought that exploring the consequences of "editing" history was a cool premise. Despite the high body count, the emphasis on collective action bringing about change was somehow (however strangely) able to give the book a positive message.
I wish we had gotten more details about how the time travel worked. Explaining it by saying that "no one understands" how it works seems like a tiny bit of a cop-out to me. (It didn't keep me from enjoying the novel, though.)
The last 10-15% of the book lost me a smidge. Without including spoilers, I'll just say that things got a bit weird and tough to follow. I would've liked more explanation there.
All in all, four stars.
Thanks to BookishFirst and the publisher for sending me a paper ARC of this book, which will be available for purchase on September 24th.
Sometimes, I'm skeptical of time travel books because they skip around too quickly and I get disoriented. Thankfully, this wasn't the case here. Newitz is careful to make sure we're oriented to time and place.
I thought that exploring the consequences of "editing" history was a cool premise. Despite the high body count, the emphasis on collective action bringing about change was somehow (however strangely) able to give the book a positive message.
I wish we had gotten more details about how the time travel worked. Explaining it by saying that "no one understands" how it works seems like a tiny bit of a cop-out to me. (It didn't keep me from enjoying the novel, though.)
The last 10-15% of the book lost me a smidge. Without including spoilers, I'll just say that things got a bit weird and tough to follow. I would've liked more explanation there.
All in all, four stars.
Thanks to BookishFirst and the publisher for sending me a paper ARC of this book, which will be available for purchase on September 24th.