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Beijing Subway Guide and Route Planner

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The Beijing Metro Guide is the quick and easy way to navigate your way into and around the city...

Lonely Planet Sicily

Lonely Planet, Gregor Clark and Vesna Maric

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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Sicily is your passport to...

Limited Wish

Mark Lawrence

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One choice. Two possible timelines. And a world hanging in the balance. It’s the summer of 1986...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2163 KP) rated A Simple Murder (Will Rees, #1) in Books

Feb 9, 2020

Simple Time but Complex Murder

It’s 1795, and Will Rees has spent the last few years as a traveling weaver while grieving his wife. He’s left his son and his Maine farm in the care of his sister and her husband, but his most recent trip home leads to the discovery that they’ve been abusing that trust, and his son, David, has run away to a Shaker community over a day’s travel away. Will goes to try to repair their relationship only to find himself involved in a murder. One of the Shaker women has been killed in their community, and the Elders have asked Will to find the killer. His problem, however, is that he is an outsider. Will anyone trust him enough to share the information he needs to solve the case?

I’m always on the lookout for a good historical mystery, so I was quite eager to pick this one up. I’m not familiar with the Shakers, so that was also an interesting aspect of the book. The plot is good with plenty of twists and a logical conclusion, however, I felt like the pacing could have been better. That might have just been me since Will could only talk to a couple of people at a time if he had to travel far to talk to them. This is a historical mystery, after all. That travel time may have helped lead me to feel like things were slow. The characters are strong. I really came to care for Will and several of the others. The characters were just as strong, and I had no trouble keeping them apart. However, as Will begins to find complex family relationships, I had a hard time keeping all of those straight. The everyday details of life in the time period were strong and helped make me feel like I was back in time when I was reading the book. I am definitely planning to visit Will again to find out what happens to him next.

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Sara Cox (1845 KP) rated The Psychology of Time Travel in Books

Feb 8, 2020

The Psychology of Time Travel

Kate Mascarenhas | 2018 | LGBTQ+, Mystery, Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.3

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When I first started reading this book, what I did not expect was it to be a murder-mystery!
Four women have invented a time machine and this book explores how time travel effects the women and their different personalities. There is a running theme of death within the story - and let's be honest, that's what everyone would be asking themselves about their own future. I really like the thoughtfulness of the language, the slang that time travellers would use, for example "green self" is used to describe yourself from a time period before where you are and "silver self" the opposite. I really enjoyed reading this and found the jumping through time quite easy, I even forgot to read the date on some chapters and still managed to figure out where in the timeline the chapter stood pretty quickly without getting confused. The writing is clear and easy to read. I found the murder-mystery especially interesting! And how motives jump through time as well as the detective who has to solve it without altering the timeline. Highly recommend.