Lisa78 reviewed on 11/7/2008 + 25 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I was 50/50 on this one. I do enjoy novels that involve time travel, and I find it interesting how events are handled when it comes to changing the past and the effect on future(present) events. In that respect, I liked the story. The past/future was intertwined in a way that I hadn't seen written in quite that amount of detail.

The details are where the novel fell a bit flat for me, though. First and foremost, the author is obviously obsessed with art/hobby of making paper. The female protagonist, Clare, is an artist who makes paper. What does this have to do with anything in the book? Nothing. Yet it is described in great detail, and is always worked into scenes until it becomes tiresome. You could have plugged any vocation/avocation into the book and it would have made as much sense. It really was an unnecessary "character" in the book, and it took up a lot of space.

I think the book could have been amazing in the hands of a good story editor. The bones were there for an incredibly mind-bending book, but it got mired down along the way. It's still an interesting read, but it will probably be a love it/hate it book for most.

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