Reviews by Tag: time travel

Teen Review
Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

By Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 25, 2024

Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a science fiction novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. It follows the story of a coffee shop that is rumored to take people back in time. In order to do this, there are many rules that the person has to follow and if they don’t there are negative consequences. Throughout the novel, there are different characters that each go into the cafe in order to travel back in time. You learn about their past, their intentions to time travel, and what they want to accomplish by doing it. 

Teen Review
Invictus by Ryan Graudin

Invictus

By Ryan Graudin
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Gretta K.
Jul 10, 2023

Farway McCarthy knows he is destined to be a time traveler, after all, he was born outside of time. But when fails his final exam, Far doesn’t know what else he will do with his life. Gathering up his friends, he gets the chance to time travel, even if it may be illegal. His crew gets tangled with a time altering event and have to find a way to save time and themselves. 

Teen Review
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier

Ruby Red

By Kerstin Gier
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Kayla B.
Aug 12, 2022

Gwyneth Shepherd has enough on her plate, what with her ability to talk to ghosts, and the
constant struggle with ugly school uniforms. She definitely could do without unexpected bouts of
time travel. Unfortunately for Gwyneth, her family’s preparations for Gwen’s cousin Charlotte to
inherit a time travel gene were incorrect. Now, Gwyneth must fight to figure out the secrets of
the secret society controlling the time troubles and somehow survive the company of her
deliciously handsome (but also quite bothersome) time travel companion, Gideon. Will Gwen

Teen Review
Glitch by Laura Martin

Glitch

By Laura Martin
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Aadit G.
Jun 1, 2022

Rating: 4 My rating for this book is a 4 because the book is bland in my opinion and does not have intensive detail. This book failed to get my interest for the most part and I think that is mostly because of the sci-fi aspect of the book.

Summary: Regan and Eliot are paired up in a top secret program that pertains to time travel. They both have known each other and they don't have a really strong bond. In fact, it is more hesitant and both of them look down on each other. They find out about a disaster that will ruin everything and race to save the Academy.

Teen Review
Glitch by Laura Martin

Glitch

By Laura Martin
Star Rating
★★

Rated by
Shreya A.
Mar 1, 2022

Glitch is an enemies to friends and a kind of boring historical fiction novel by Laura Martin. This book is about two enemies, Elliot and Regan. They both live at a glitching academy on a remote island in the USA. The glitch academy produces glitchers who go back into time to keep history on its right tracks. Elliot and Regan are put into a different part of the academy and are taught how to glitch in unexpected times and how to capture the butterfly or the person trying to change history.

Teen Review
For All Time by Shanna Miles

For All Time

By Shanna Miles
Star Rating
★★

Rated by
Marium K.
Nov 3, 2021

Two soulmates, Tamar and Fayard, have both lived a multitude of lives and have died together. They are tired of finding romance and losing it, so when they discover a way to break the cycle and live a long fulfilling life, they fight that chance. Will they break the cycle? Read more to find out!

Teen Review
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone

This Is How You Lose the Time War

By Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Lisa J.
Oct 19, 2021

Red shouldn’t have picked up the letter. Shouldn’t have betrayed her people. Shouldn’t have replied. But she did, and now nothing will ever be the same again. Red is a time traveler working for the Agency, a technotopia, while Blue is an agent for the Garden, a vast, organic entity rooted in nature. As rivals, they travel through strands of alternate realities and dimensions, influencing them to guide the path of the future in an all-encompassing war. They were made to be enemies — so why does it feel so right when they craft the words that bridge the untraversable gap between them?

Teen Review

Proof of Forever

By Lexa Hillyer

Rated by
Olivia from Leawood Pioneer Library YAAC
Jun 21, 2018

Joy, Tali, Luce, and Zoe were once inseparable at Camp Okahatchee. But now two years later, they have grown apart and their bond has faded. That is until the flash of a photo booth camera transports them back in time, to the summer when they were 15, the summer when everything changed. Now, the girls have to recreate the past so they can return to the future. But as they relive their summer, the mystery behind their lost friendship unravels and a dark secret threatens to tear them apart all over again.

Teen Review

The Loop

By Shandy Lawson

Rated by
Olivia from Leawood Pioneer Library YAAC
Mar 6, 2017

Over the course of two days, Ben and Maggie have met and fallen in love, only to die together countless times. They struggle again and again to resist the pull of their fate and time itself. Every time they come closer to breaking out of the time loop, everything becomes more deeply ingrained and more inescapable. They think up a desperate plan to break free and survive, but what if their only shot at not dying is to live apart?

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