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A review by sterling8
15 Minutes by Jill Cooper
3.0
The book starts with a bang! A girl is racing to get to the right place to save her mother from being killed. She's got to travel back in time to do it- to when she was 5 years old. And she succeeds!
And then you get what happens once history is changed. Now Lara has both a mother and father, plus a stepfather and two new siblings that she hadn't bargained on. Lara just didn't think through exactly what it would mean to change things in this way. She's got a new boyfriend and her old one doesn't like her, she's preppy instead of a punk, and her dad's in prison. Oops!
The book's actually pretty well written. It's just also really YA, with angst about everything, and it's not what I was in the mood for. The other problem is that we barely see Lara's life before she changes it, so we don't have an emotional investment in the stakes- her old life, boyfriend, father, etc. Plus there's very little exposition of exactly how time travel and altering history are supposed to work in her world. Maybe I just didn't get far enough. I may pick it up again sometime...
And then you get what happens once history is changed. Now Lara has both a mother and father, plus a stepfather and two new siblings that she hadn't bargained on. Lara just didn't think through exactly what it would mean to change things in this way. She's got a new boyfriend and her old one doesn't like her, she's preppy instead of a punk, and her dad's in prison. Oops!
The book's actually pretty well written. It's just also really YA, with angst about everything, and it's not what I was in the mood for. The other problem is that we barely see Lara's life before she changes it, so we don't have an emotional investment in the stakes- her old life, boyfriend, father, etc. Plus there's very little exposition of exactly how time travel and altering history are supposed to work in her world. Maybe I just didn't get far enough. I may pick it up again sometime...