For the past two years, Amie Teller has been stuck in a time loop. Each day, she wakes up and it’s September 17th. Same day, same weather, same people, same conversations. Until, one day, it’s September 18th, and Amie is free.
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| February 2026; Crooked Lane Books; 979-8892423939 audio, ebook, print (336 pages); sci-fi cozy mystery |
This book had a great premise for a science fiction cozy mystery. Amie comes out of the time loop and discovers there's been a murder. Could she have stopped the murder?
Unfortunately, the book didn't work for me.
One of the biggest draws of a cozy mystery is the characters. The characters were boring. The only one I came close to liking was David.
This could have also been a women's fiction story as Amie deals with her relationship with her ex. We don't know until late in the book why they broke up. Amie and Ziya are pretty much opposites, which I know sometimes attract but doesn't always mean a sustainable relationship.
Since the story is set after she gets out of the time loop, it isn't your typical time loop story. The time loop is used as a plot device to provide flashbacks to the day of the murder and allows Amie to remember details that a regular person wouldn't. In your typical time loop story, the main character usually has to change something about that day for it to end. We never get an answer to why she was in the time loop or why it ended.
There is also another plot point that didn't get answered sufficiently. One of the characters does something different on the last day she is in the time loop that didn't usually happen. There is no explanation as to why that character's routine changed.
Because I didn't really care about any of the characters, and there wasn't enough tension to really invest in the murder mystery (which is typical for a cozy mystery), the story just couldn't hold my attention. At first, I thought it was because I was sent a pdf to review, which means I could only read it on my Scribe or my Chromebook, as the font can't be increased, so it is too small to read on my Paperwhite (it is like a whole page of the print book appears on the screen). I was limited mostly to before bed for reading. Then, on the weekends when I could dedicate more time to reading it, I discovered that after about 10 pages, my mind would wander.
I wish I had enjoyed this story more.
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Donna Huber is an avid reader and natural encourager. She is the founder of Girl Who Reads and the author of how-to marketing book Secrets to a Successful Blog Tour.
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