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aprater's review
5.0
I can’t stop thinking about this book and the premise of a recursion in time. Time travel has rarely been explored like this and the time continuum may never be the same. I also feel that the book made some valid inroads to what it means when we experience “bad” or “good” events and how did those things appear to others? Would you really want to miss out on what came next or could you have the constitution to weather the storm again in anticipation of a better after? This book didn’t leave when I closed the last page, it peers at me through time and memory.
stephbookshine's review
3.0
* I received a free copy of this novel as part of the Dominion Rising launch event on Facebook. This is an honest, unbiased review.*
Phew! I felt breathless after finishing this book!
You jump right into the action from the first page and the furiously fast pace doesn’t let up until the sudden calm of the final, epilogic chapter. This definitely classes as an action thriller as well as a sci-fi.
The sci-fi element is time travel via discovered ‘tunnels’. I liked the concept that people discovered such tunnels accidentally during times of extreme duress, as in the case of our main protaganist, Molly, who falls (floats?) through one underwater during a traumatic car accident. I found the idea that the phenomenon is linked to personal emotions rather than just being a scientific/natural occurence.
The story is told in the first person, with flashes back and forward (naturally…time travel!), often punctuated by periods of unconsciousness. Molly is a competent and decisive agent and the reader has automatic trust in her, which is good because you can’t trust any of the other characters! There is plenty of espionage activity here, related to control of the tunnels, although everyone’s motives are still unclear at this point in the wider story arc.
The novel reminded me of the film ‘Inception’, in both content and style, especially in the uncertainty about what is real and truly happened, and what is purely in the character’s mind: is she married to James? Does the top fall? There are questions about the nature of our memories and how much we can trust them; the morality of ‘meddling’ in events that have already happened or are going to; loyalty and how well we can know people…
This book sets up the questions, but doesn’t answer many of them, as it is obviously the first in a series that will explore both the technology and the characters’ shadowed pasts in a future installment. Instead we get a quick guided tour of the factions in play, the technology available, and the issues to be explored, at whirlwind speed, then a pause at the end to catch your breath and regroup before starting Book 2.
If you like your reading to be non-stop action with a sci-fi twist then this is definitely the book for you. Be prepared to read it in one sitting!
Phew! I felt breathless after finishing this book!
You jump right into the action from the first page and the furiously fast pace doesn’t let up until the sudden calm of the final, epilogic chapter. This definitely classes as an action thriller as well as a sci-fi.
The sci-fi element is time travel via discovered ‘tunnels’. I liked the concept that people discovered such tunnels accidentally during times of extreme duress, as in the case of our main protaganist, Molly, who falls (floats?) through one underwater during a traumatic car accident. I found the idea that the phenomenon is linked to personal emotions rather than just being a scientific/natural occurence.
The story is told in the first person, with flashes back and forward (naturally…time travel!), often punctuated by periods of unconsciousness. Molly is a competent and decisive agent and the reader has automatic trust in her, which is good because you can’t trust any of the other characters! There is plenty of espionage activity here, related to control of the tunnels, although everyone’s motives are still unclear at this point in the wider story arc.
The novel reminded me of the film ‘Inception’, in both content and style, especially in the uncertainty about what is real and truly happened, and what is purely in the character’s mind: is she married to James? Does the top fall? There are questions about the nature of our memories and how much we can trust them; the morality of ‘meddling’ in events that have already happened or are going to; loyalty and how well we can know people…
This book sets up the questions, but doesn’t answer many of them, as it is obviously the first in a series that will explore both the technology and the characters’ shadowed pasts in a future installment. Instead we get a quick guided tour of the factions in play, the technology available, and the issues to be explored, at whirlwind speed, then a pause at the end to catch your breath and regroup before starting Book 2.
If you like your reading to be non-stop action with a sci-fi twist then this is definitely the book for you. Be prepared to read it in one sitting!
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