Rating: I liked it
Format: Ebook


I liked it, it was an interesting concept but the main mystery wasn't that compelling.

I was most interested in the Wolf that ate time part, and the story of captain Ross than the main murder mystery.

I think the ghost part was an unnecessary complication to the plot, and so were

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the chess pieces

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I would something else from the author.

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The fictional first nation people of the story can turn back time, a few hours, just once in their lifetime.
Lincoln is a Elon Musk type character. He got his fortune by using his wolf power, saving a millionaire. Now, he is obsessed in dying young, so he surrounded himself with people with the wolf power.
He read that the power could be brought back and to be used endlessly. The ritual involve eating the Akaht's chief, his childhood friend Maquina.
So he planned that, and he killed him, but it didn't work, he didn't got back his wolf power.
Lincoln told this to Koji, his head of security. Lincoln told him that maybe the ritual didn't work because he waited too long to eat his heart, so that he should try again with the next chief.
Koji told this to his grandson, Yahl. He told Koji that this was their chance to get rid of Lincoln, so they made his sister turn back time, and tell them what Lincoln was planning to do (since she and maquina -because he died- would be the only ones to remember what had happened).
They let play everything the same but let Lincoln be killed instead.
Lincoln had program these chest pieces with Surgical instruments, to open the heart of whoever was wearing his watch at a certain time. So Maquina just let that kill Lincoln.

Then they turn back times a couple of times more, because they needed someone to be blame for the murder.

Ella maquina and Lincoln's childhood friend, and Lincoln former fiancee, was at the ghost launch party that night. She was heading Lincoln's death investigation because she had previously been associated with law enforcement. Lastly Koji, Maq and Yahl tried to pin Lincoln's death to her but she found out and made them confess.

The ghost were like some kind of virtual reality avatars.

At the end it was determined Lincoln died by accident by his invention, the chess pieces.

Ella and the rest decided they couldn't tell the whole truth about the wolf and turning back time, so they told a partial truth: Lincoln tried to murder maq, accidentally drank Maq's drink, laced with a tranquilizer, and since he was wearing the watch, died by his own chess pieces creation.

Both Maq and Yahl were acquitted. Koji had escaped before and died in the mines.