Em knows she has to kill him, she
and Finn have been talking about it for months. In truth she has always known
that it has to happen, but it was something she was trying to avoid. Em and
Finn have gone back in time fourteen times according to the notes that Em keeps
leaving herself, trying to change the future, to stop the Doctor from inventing
the time machine that destroys the world, nothing has worked. All that has left
is to kill the Doctor before he ever invents the machine.
Em and Finn
know that going back in time will change everything, that their current
existence will blink away, but Em wants Marina, the young and innocent girl she
used to be, to have the future she deserves. The mission back will mean the end
of Em and Finn, but the hope that their past selves won’t have to go through a
life hunted on the run, and tortured by the Doctor.
This is the
fourteenth version of Em and Finn that has gone back in time, but this will be
the hardest time for them. They have to kill the doctor before he ever invents
the formulas, and before he makes deals with secret sects of the government.
Unfortunately, the Doctor is their childhood best friend. Em stopped calling
him James the day he tortured and killed Luz, their childhood caregiver, trying
to get Em to give up documents she had stolen. That was the day Em realized
their really was no hope for him, and she and Finn had to find a way to stop
the Doctor from destroying the world.
Of course
nothing is so simple when it comes to time travel, the Doctor is following them
back himself this time, because he knows they are going to try and kill his
past self. He has a plan too, to kill the young Marina and Finn long before
they grow up to cause trouble for him and his project.
There is a
problem though, young Marina, Finn and James are still friends in the past, and
their future selves are changing the past in ways they can’t imagine. Some good
ways, and some bad ways, but things are unraveling and secrets from the future
and being told. Secrets that not even Finn and Em knew are being shared with
their past selves. Em knows that fixing the past means killing her old best
friend and her childhood sweetheart, but can she actually pull the trigger?
Especially with Marina there?
I loved
this book, I couldn’t put it down. I thought about it while I was at work and
while playing Words With Friends. I texted my friends about it while I was
reading it. It was an amazing book. I thought the way they handled time travel
was amazing, I never questioned things that happened or got confused by the
science-fiction part of the novel. I loved the characters, how real they
seemed, I was pulling for Em and Finn the whole time, but understood her
struggle to kill James. One of the cool parts of the story was how half of it
took place from Em’s perspective and half took place from Marina’s. It showed
that while both were in such different places in their lives, they were still
the same person with the same thought process and loyalty. I think this is one
of my favorite time-travel type books. While I know there is a sequel coming
out, I am not sure I will read it. Only because this book as a stand alone is
amazing. 
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