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caesar2014's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Abandonment
Moderate: Grief, Violence, and Terminal illness
Minor: Bullying
filliefanatic's review
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
4.25
very cute little book! very cool concept as well, didn't actually know human perception of time changed like that with the onset of clocks.
hweezbooks's review
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
3.75
This was quite a serious sort of tale, without the usual light, optimistic sheen that comes with most middle grade books.
Author Sinead O’Hart puts forth an interesting premise, a thought she’d been tossing about for a few decades, before it became this book.
As humanity progressed from waking with the sun and eating when hungry, to being governed by the clock — what if this discrepancy resulted in a gap or unused time to be harvested? Or if a person dies before his time, could that time be used by someone else?
Mara, just twelve, has lived in a shabby van all her life. She doesn’t know what her father does for a job, until she discovers tools of his trade hidden in the van one day. Before she can find out more, he’s taken, and she gets caught in the chase.
This was a suspenseful, sometimes tense, read brought out so realistically by O’Hart. She raises moral questions about what one does who has power to harvest time. Does such a Time Tider then have a right to profit from trading in this time?
“Time and Tide Will Wait for None; But They Will Wait for Me.” Mara discovers that she too, can see these time warps and a young reader 10+ would enjoy growing along with her as she fights for what is right.
📚: @times.reads
Author Sinead O’Hart puts forth an interesting premise, a thought she’d been tossing about for a few decades, before it became this book.
As humanity progressed from waking with the sun and eating when hungry, to being governed by the clock — what if this discrepancy resulted in a gap or unused time to be harvested? Or if a person dies before his time, could that time be used by someone else?
Mara, just twelve, has lived in a shabby van all her life. She doesn’t know what her father does for a job, until she discovers tools of his trade hidden in the van one day. Before she can find out more, he’s taken, and she gets caught in the chase.
This was a suspenseful, sometimes tense, read brought out so realistically by O’Hart. She raises moral questions about what one does who has power to harvest time. Does such a Time Tider then have a right to profit from trading in this time?
“Time and Tide Will Wait for None; But They Will Wait for Me.” Mara discovers that she too, can see these time warps and a young reader 10+ would enjoy growing along with her as she fights for what is right.
📚: @times.reads
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