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Timescape (2009)

by Robert Liparulo(Favorite Author)

4.3 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

159554500X (ISBN13: 9781595545008)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Thomas Nelson Publishers

series

Dreamhouse Kings

review 1: We’re back again. In the house that’s haunting the King family. Not really haunting maybe. It feels more like hunting. When we last left our favorite family, they were all in mortal danger. Again. Liparulo is really good at that and I still have two more books to go. I’ve got to wonder what could possibly come after this.First I suppose I should start with the opening page of the book. STOP! Read House of the Dark Shadows, Watcher in the Woods and Gatekeepers before continuing! There are going to be spoilers in this review as I wrap up the synopsis, so don’t read on if you don’t know what’s happening in the series.So, as I was saying, when we last left our favorite family, they were all in mortal danger. They’d found Grandma in time and brought her back. The... more boys, dad and Keal were all in the future world where they discovered everything was not peaceful or quiet. And time (yes somewhere, somehow time became a character in and of itself) decided Grandma was not where she belonged and needed to go back into the house. When we ended the last book, Toria was sitting on top of Grandma trying to keep her ‘here.’ The world that Liparulo has created is so fantastic and mind-stretching that sometimes it’s hard to believe what you’re reading. But he handles it was such grace that he allows the characters to address the craziness of their situation. At one point in this book, David is mourning the loss of his favorite shoes in the Civil War. In the next thought he makes the observation that a sentence like that isn’t even strange anymore. It’s a perfect safety valve for the reader’s disbelief. I love this. Just when I get to a point where I’m thinking that it’s stretched so far I’m not sure I can keep following, one of the characters says the exact same thing that I’m thinking. This helped me settle back into a balance where I could continue enjoying the adventures.In this book, we learn a lot about how the house works, where it came from and how to deal with time, but there are still a lot of questions. How does the house work? How do you get back to specific worlds? And what’s Jesse got to do with the house? (Admittedly, reading and writing these reviews while experiencing the series finale of “Lost” may not have been a good idea….) Liparulo’s timing, technique, pacing and characters are all spot on. There are no missteps here. Questions are posed but answers are given. It’s a masterful balance that gives the readers enough satisfaction with what they’re learning at the same time it introduces just the right amount of curiosity to keep the reader engaged in the story.We leave our favorite family in much the same element of danger with uniquely different circumstances. One thing I can say for Liparulo’s mind is that he seems to have endless ways to put your heart into your throat and leave you grasping for the next page.Review copies provided by Thomas Nelson.
review 2: The King family continues in their quest to learn why their house is so strange - filled with portals to different times and places. Times and places that are often dangerous, but also the only way they have to find where their mother may have disappeared. Best read immediately after book 3 - I would recommend reading the entire series in order, back to back. One book moves seamlessly into the next. less

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