Book Review: Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle
With time travel and the strangest idea about how to deal with criminals, this story is sure to get your brain going in many different ways. Check out my full review for Lost in Time below.
Book Information
Dr. Sam Anderson has helped to invent something that has changed the world: a tool that can send people and objects back in time. What it ends up being used for is to send dangerous criminals to a time where they can’t hurt anyone. What he doesn’t expect, though, is that the very thing he created will be used against him once he is accused of a murder he didn’t commit.
In a whirlwind of time and money and hope, his daughter, Adeline, will stop at nothing to get him back.
Review | Heidi Dischler
So, I read this book for the book club that I’m in and I will say this much about it: boy did we discuss this book in length. Normally there’s a lot of drinking and talking about life, but this book had us all reeling, so I will give it that. What I won’t give it, though, is good execution.
What started out as a promising idea turned into something so complicated that I’m not sure if even the author understood it at the end. Sending criminals to the past? Cool. Trying to explain the reaction of space and time to make that happen? Not so cool. It felt very underwhelming, especially at the end when many ideas were brushed under the rug.
You basically get to follow Dr. Sam as he tries to survive the past, and his daughter, Adeline, as she tries to change her father’s future and bring him back to his own time. When Adeline really starts gaining traction on this is where things get a little complicated.
Character-wise, I wasn’t truly attached to anyone in the novel. I felt bad for them, sure, but emotional connection? Absolutely not. Many of the people in my book club said they didn’t like the writing as well, but I didn’t mind it. That also could be because I listened to the audiobook instead of reading a physical copy.
Spoilers ahead.
Did anyone else feel absolutely sick to their stomachs that Adeline spent basically her whole entire life trying to bring her father back???? Like, as a parent, I would literally vomit if my child told me this and brought me back. He made her promise to spend two years. She spent basically a third of her life (if not more because I kinda got confused with the ages at this point) trying to save her father.
Also, when they all asked what happened originally and if Nora had ever really been murdered, the answer was “we’ll just never know.” Which, okay, I get that may be the logical answer, but as a reader, that’s not what I wanted to hear.
Overall, this book was too unsatisfying at the end for me to really have enjoyed it. Like I said, the concept was really cool but the execution just wasn’t there.
Source: Audiobook from Audible
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