This book is definitely not remarkable, but also definitely not bad.

For starters, time travel just makes anything more interesting and creates so many possible dynamics you wouldn't find in nature. Like meeting someone who had a thing with you in their past but your future. Or fighting your future self. Should we shun people we know are going to betray us in the future? Or will the shunning be the cause of the betrayal? The plot is very circular and convoluted and, well, I love a good convoluted storyline. You can't even really tell what set off the chain of events because everything caused each other. It's a circle. The nature of this time travel is that everyone is mostly either reacting to something, or doing something because they know they've already done it. And it works though. It's a fun read and I love to figure things out right before the protagonists do.

At the end of the book they seem to denounce the 'doctrine of inevitability', or at least questioning it seems to be a part of the MC's discovery process, and in its place she embraces 'the truth', or the one true timeline, and it truly is a head scratcher to me because don't these things both basically just mean fate and not being able to change the events of the past, and the way things are 'supposed to be'? Idk.

Other than that, there are quite a few clichéed scenes and lines like "Come down, come down wherever you are... I just want to talk." Followed by "Shouldn't have done that...I never wanted to hurt you..." and "I can offer you a real life" etc. Real dialogue in our final confrontation scene. Character roles are very predictable overall.

Ooh and a bum is exclusively a heinie or a keister. Lol. And she mentions her heinie a lot. Mostly found that charming but also funny.

I mostly enjoyed this but there were just small things that put me off throughout and I come away with the basic impression that this could've easily been a lot better if it was just a bit tighter. Like I was totally a fan of Claudia Grey's Firebird series when I picked it up in 2019. Oh. Also. Sorry but Finn was too touchy.

Maybe 3.5? No but my soul aches to rate this higher. In the true timeline this book was 4 stars.

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