Book #85 |
Book: The Memory Collectors | Author: Dete Meserve | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Kindle |
Pages: 320 | Duration: 09/14/25 – 09/16/25 (3 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: science fiction, time travel, mystery | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Four strangers time travel to the same significant past day. 🖌6-word review: Thoughtful, clever, interestingly interconnected compelling storylines. |
|||
| 💭A favorite quote: “The first time I’d lived this life, I’d rushed through it, ignoring the details around me. I’d looked at the things in my life without really seeing them at all. Today, it’s the little things I latch on to.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: dun, kohl | |||
| Description:* What would you do if you could spend an hour in your past? Four strangers in the beach town of Ventura, California are about to find out. Elizabeth aches for one more precious hour with her son who died in a senseless accident. Andy is desperate to find his first love who vanished after a whirlwind romance. Logan craves the rush of surfing and mountain climbing, yearning to reclaim the freedom he lost after a misstep landed him in a wheelchair. Brooke is looking for an hour of relief from the guilt of an unforgivable mistake. Enter Aeon Expeditions, the groundbreaking time travel invention of Mark Saunders—which allows some lucky clients the chance to spend an hour in their past. Even though Aeon’s technology ensures time travel can’t alter the future, all four clients, including Mark’s ex-wife Elizabeth, yearn to revisit the hour that changed their lives forever. *From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: Another book to support my notion that the only kind of science fiction I really like is time-travel stories. Other time-travel books I’ve enjoyed include Remember Me Tomorrow, Oona Out of Order, The Midnight Library, Mrs. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, The Time Traveler’s Wife, In Five Years, and A Wrinkle in Time. I like the notion in this story that while you can’t go back and do something differently in the past that changes an event in your future, you can learn something when you go back that changes how you “frame” what happened back then once you get back. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2025 and previous years: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
