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A review by samanthafab
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
5.0
OMG. I can't even. 4.5/5 will review soon.
Update 2/7/15:
Usually when I review a book it’s always easier to pick out the faults of a book over its virtues, but for “All Our Yesterdays”, I walked away from this one with a lot of happy, squishy feelings. A book that makes me cry is always totally worth it, because if a book makes you feel, it’s doing something very right.
At first I thought I was reading another predictable story. The author was trying to be misleading with the characters and who the “him” is in the “You have to kill him”, but this was actually revealed fairly early on and I found myself unsure of how this book would play out.
Every time travel story views time travel a little differently and I liked how Terrill used the idea that certain events become “fixed” so that the rest of time sort of works itself into place around it. This explains the idea that someone can go into the past and change an event, even if it means that their alternate self then never follows in their path to make that event happen. Does that make sense? Well that’s time travel for you. I love it.
It was interesting to follow the characters and slowly piece together Marina and Finn’s history and how/why they ended up imprisoned and had to travel back in time to change their past to save themselves, and the world, from a horrible future. They are faced with the dilemma of if they can kill an innocent person in the past to stop them from becoming a monster in the future. It’s not so easy when it’s personal.
Romantically there’s a bit of a love triangle, but the love triangle haters can still be pleased by this book as the romance is nicely weaved into the main plot and doesn’t overwhelm, but enhances the story.
This book is a delightful time travel story with interesting characters. While it wasn’t a book that kept me up reading all night, it was still very enjoyable, it made me think. it surprised me, and perhaps greatest of all, it made me feel.
Update 2/7/15:
Usually when I review a book it’s always easier to pick out the faults of a book over its virtues, but for “All Our Yesterdays”, I walked away from this one with a lot of happy, squishy feelings. A book that makes me cry is always totally worth it, because if a book makes you feel, it’s doing something very right.
At first I thought I was reading another predictable story. The author was trying to be misleading with the characters and who the “him” is in the “You have to kill him”, but this was actually revealed fairly early on and I found myself unsure of how this book would play out.
Every time travel story views time travel a little differently and I liked how Terrill used the idea that certain events become “fixed” so that the rest of time sort of works itself into place around it. This explains the idea that someone can go into the past and change an event, even if it means that their alternate self then never follows in their path to make that event happen. Does that make sense? Well that’s time travel for you. I love it.
It was interesting to follow the characters and slowly piece together Marina and Finn’s history and how/why they ended up imprisoned and had to travel back in time to change their past to save themselves, and the world, from a horrible future. They are faced with the dilemma of if they can kill an innocent person in the past to stop them from becoming a monster in the future. It’s not so easy when it’s personal.
Romantically there’s a bit of a love triangle, but the love triangle haters can still be pleased by this book as the romance is nicely weaved into the main plot and doesn’t overwhelm, but enhances the story.
This book is a delightful time travel story with interesting characters. While it wasn’t a book that kept me up reading all night, it was still very enjoyable, it made me think. it surprised me, and perhaps greatest of all, it made me feel.