Yashima reviewed Paradox Bound: A Novel by Peter Clines
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3 stars
This read like „The Matrix Goes Back to The Future - an American Roadtrip“ with Adam Sandler and Kirsten Dunst. And I don’t particularly like road movies...
The pacing at the beginning made it a little difficult to get into the book and the somewhat boring protagonist with his creepy/stalkery behavior didn’t help.
Except for the slight twist of history-travel the setting is contemporary/historical US. I don’t know my US history well enough to know the references. So those are likely lost on me for the most part. The old-car-theme is not something that speaks to me either and so it took me two thirds of the book to get to the fun parts, where the plot picks up and a few interesting world-building bits show up. I wish the story would have spent more time with exploring the titular paradoxes... I expected some interesting twists and the book delivered those in the final third. Admittedly, these things need set-up. But somehow at the end I was left wanting more of that and less of the set-up itself.
I’d recommend this for someone with an interest in US history, a love for contemporary settings with a slight twist and for old American cars.