This is the final installment to the TimeKeeper Trilogy. I don’t want to get into reviews on this site, but I did get a little frustrated with this book. I loved the first two books and was pulled along with their urgent pacing, but this book took a bit more effort to stay engaged. I don’t regret reading it, as I was fully invested in learning the outcome for these characters. Especially after a cliffhanger ending there really was no choice but to move forward to the end of FireStarter. But the 528 pages involve an unending cycle of capture/escape (over and over and over) and it got tiresome… especially as they did not seem to move the plot forward that much. Danny repeatedly makes bad decisions and it just gets head-scratching after a bit when he gets captured again, and again, and again. But that said, there is much to enjoy and the first two books pretty much require that you read this one as well. And many reviewers on Amazon do not seem to have my issues with the book, so the looping nature of these episodic adventures may not bother you at all. It does all end quite satisfactorily if you have patience.
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The final installment of the Timekeeper trilogy.
The crew of the Prometheus is intent on taking down the world’s clock towers so that time can run freely. Now captives, Colton, Daphne, and the others have a stark choice: join the Prometheus’s cause or fight back in any small way they can and face the consequences. But Zavier, leader of the terrorists, has a bigger plan—to bring back the lost god of time.
As new threats emerge, loyalties must shift. No matter where the Prometheus goes—Prague, Austria, India—nowhere is safe, and every second ticks closer toward the eleventh hour. Walking the line between villainy and heroism, each will have to choose what’s most important: saving those you love at the expense of the many, or making impossible sacrifices for the sake of a better world.
The Purple Fantastic Steam Meter gives this a 2… There is quite a bit of kissing, but the storytelling stays pretty PG. Arguably, the effort to stay PG at times gets confusing in this book. One has the sense that a key relationship was consummated a number of times(?), but it is handled so vaguely it is frustratingly unclear exactly what is taking place, what took place, as it would help us to understand the characters better. Big choices affect a relationship. It would simpler if the storyteller would just say what the characters are doing.
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