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Timebound

The Chronos Files, Book 1

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Timebound

By: Rysa Walker
Narrated by: Kate Rudd
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2013 Winner—Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award—Grand Prize and Young Adult Fiction Winner.

When Kate Pierce-Keller’s grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate’s present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence.

Kate learns that the 1893 killing is part of something much more sinister, and her genetic ability to time travel makes Kate the only one who can fix the future. Risking everything, she travels back in time to the Chicago World’s Fair to try to prevent the murder and the chain of events that follows.

Changing the timeline comes with a personal cost—if Kate succeeds, the boy she loves will have no memory of her existence. And regardless of her motives, does Kate have the right to manipulate the fate of the entire world?

©2013 Rysa Walker (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Science Fiction & Fantasy Time Travel Science Fiction Fantasy Literature & Fiction Historical Fiction
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Timebound is about a 16 year old girl that discovers that her grandmother (whom her Mother does not get along with and whom Kate barely knows) is dying of cancer. Her Grandmother (Katherine) has moved to DC to be near Kate and wants Kate to move into her home part time so they can get to know one another. Kate will inherit the house and the entire estate when Katherine dies.

What Kate soon learns is that Katherine is a time traveling researcher from the future and was stranded here when her Grandfather rebelled from the time traveling project to try and take over history. Kate’s mother’s twin sister was believed to be killed in a car accident, but actually went over to her father’s side.

The complexity of variable timelines and how the loss of one time line means the loss of a set of relationships and people is handled very well. Time travel books always introduce the problem of changes to the timeline, but for a young adult book, this one is almost maddeningly comprehensive in how changes work and what is the result of those changes. (Not that it is drawn out in its descriptions, but that everything has a consequence.)

A significant part of the book deals with the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Rysa Walker has clearly read The Devil in the White City and leans on that book to help give background. I used to live in the neighborhood of where the Chicago World’s Fair was located, and I loved The Devil in the White City, so I enjoyed that part of the book particularly.

The book is clearly set up for a future series (which doesn’t seem to to be scheduled yet). If you are the type of person that does not like cliff-hangers, you may want to wait until another book or two in the series is out. But this is a well done young adult time travel novel and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

(originally posted on my blog, Bookwi.se)

Nicely handled time travel book

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Where does Timebound rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Surprisingly, among one of my favorites. I got it, thinking it would just be a decent book, but wow, I was impressed.

What other book might you compare Timebound to and why?

This is my first time travel story book so I don't have anything to compare it with.

Which scene was your favorite?

The ending.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Love has no timeline

Did not expect to like it this much!!

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Would you listen to Timebound again? Why?

No! The beginning is really great, it was promising. But then the development of the story goes too fast - I had to rewind to make sure I did not miss any details - and it reminded of an underlying tone of "sects", different versions of characters in different realms, it got confusing and was not fun to listen to. Basically it was rather chaotic - good ideas - but not well developed. I would not read this book or its sequels.

Have you listened to any of Kate Rudd’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Ms. Rudd does a great job, her irish accent is not very good.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

No - not enough depths and no character development.

Great beginning, then it goes down hill

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Very seldom do I write a review for anything, but I felt the need to write one for this book. I absolutely loved it from beginning to end. There were moments when I had to re-listen to make sure I understood what was being said because there is a lot of back and forth in time, but other than that, I was thoroughly pleased. The only bummer is that I now have to wait a month and a half for the next book and she left it completely open! I WANT MORE NOW! :)

Great story... Kept me engaged.

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I have attempted to listen to this book four times because some of the ideas are good but the romance is the focus of the book, and time travel takes a back seat. The main character, Kate, is a seventeen year old who behaves like a not-too-bright fifteen year old. Kate prepares for a month to go back in time but never bothers to learn the currency or how much she should pay for items. She constantly looks for help from the male characters in the book, and so shows little self-reliance. With some character development, and world building, this could have been a good series, but it falls short.

Teen Romance with Time Travel

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