![]() ![]() ![]() It was fascinating to imagine a world where time itself is unreliable. When time is slippery, every moment counts. I think the world-building could have been better but other than that I loved it. The world is eerie and kept me on an edge. ![]() The prose was mesmerizing and the story even though it was predictable, I enjoyed it. Lost as I was, it was like greeting an old friend.Ī fascinating tale. And the way time travel works in this story is also messy. The unnamed boy wants to escape the drudgery of life in his small town and ends up messing with time travel. He has no name which is really weird but works rather well for this bizarre but engaging story. Yet the place wasn’t entirely strange to me, which was somehow the strangest thing of all. When a Chronologist comes to their town to check on their tower clock, the boy realizes that the Chronologist has successfully left this town many times so he decides to follow the Chronologist to find his own escape too. He finds life boring and wants to leave it behind but no one has ever left the town before. We were losing ourselves and we were losing one another, falling away through the unnumbered days.Īn eleven-year-old boy lives in a small town with his father and day in, day out they go through the motions. ![]()
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