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A review by yourwordsmyink
Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates
3.0
Actual rating 3.5 Stars. Read the full review on my blog www.yourwordsmyink.com
Hazards of Time Travel has a great premise, but ultimately it just fell flat for me. The book starts off with a lot of technical babble about the various departments and security forces that control future America, along with several acronyms and initialisms. It was like reading a textbook and had to memorize the different names and their meanings for a test. It got boring fast.
The writing style is also difficult to get used to. It felt like I was reading FBI files. Sentences were short and often missed words. The world building also fell flat, as we don't spend enough time in the future. The whole book just read funny. I might be missing the point with the social commentary, but this book could have been better. This didn't strike me as a book written to poke fun at other YA dystopians. It was too serious - or maybe not serious enough.
Hazards of Time Travel has a great premise, but ultimately it just fell flat for me. The book starts off with a lot of technical babble about the various departments and security forces that control future America, along with several acronyms and initialisms. It was like reading a textbook and had to memorize the different names and their meanings for a test. It got boring fast.
The writing style is also difficult to get used to. It felt like I was reading FBI files. Sentences were short and often missed words. The world building also fell flat, as we don't spend enough time in the future. The whole book just read funny. I might be missing the point with the social commentary, but this book could have been better. This didn't strike me as a book written to poke fun at other YA dystopians. It was too serious - or maybe not serious enough.