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Timesplash (2013)

by Graham Storrs(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Momentum

series

Timesplash

review 1: Once again the five star system fails me. I think this book was 4.5 stars. I had a hard time deciding between four or five stars. Ultimately, I went with four because the characters were a little two dimensionally and the climax went more or less as expected. That said, the writing was excellent and I really liked the concept. I'm not a fan of time travel. I don't like the multiple universe concept and the whole paradox issue otherwise kills it. The way the author treats time travel circumvents both of these concepts in a truly awesome way. Given that, this is another in a string of time travel stories I've really enjoyed. Maybe I'm a closet time travel lover.I highly recommend this book. I particularly love the fact that the story takes place all over the world,... more mostly in Europe. Not sure this is good or bad, but it feels a little like a book written to be a movie. It doesn't bother me and I think it would make an excellent movie, easily doable with modern CGI. Read it!
review 2: This is sci-fi with a vengeance. Rich kids would have ‘splash’ parties, where they would do drugs, and send someone back a few years in a time machine. The time travelers would be gone under an hour. While they were in the past, they would commit as much destruction and mayhem as possible. They would murder their own grandmother when she was a baby, shooting everyone in sight, that sort of thing. The time lines always righted themselves, and it was like the ‘bad’ events never occurred, BUT the area around the time travel cage would turn into a PCP like weird land, called the “Splash”.Then they figured out the farther back you go, and the more trouble you cause, the bigger the splash. Finally, someone went too far and a lot of people got killed. Then a whole city was wiped out. Suddenly stopping time travel terrorists became policy number one for governments everywhere.This is the story of how one rich kid, went from being a ‘splash’ kid high on drugs, trying the latest fad, to being a super cop and saving Europe from time traveling terrorists. CONS:It was written by an Australian, so they have ideas about romance with ‘jail bait’ that would earn you ten years in prison in Florida. Getting over that hurdle was a bit strange.You also have to do some translating, since it’s written in ‘English’ English, not ‘USA’ English, (nothing ethnocentric going on here!!) but actually, that makes it more fun. I actually had to go to urban dictionary for a definition.I thought the evil character “Sniper” was too revered. Anyone could have taken his place for the terrorists, so they didn’t really need him. The tech who provided the ways and means for the time travel was the person whom I felt the story should have centered upon. But then again, Sniper was outrageous and crazy and really entertaining, which is all we expect from a book right?PROS:The novel was fresh and exciting. It was hard to put down.The characters were truly alive. They leap out from the pages and grab the reader by the throat, shaking them by the collar and demanding to be devoured and enjoyed. I’d recommend if you like fresh novel sci-fi, give “Time Splash” a whirl. less

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