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“Endearing, exciting, and very clever, Danielle Rollins' Stolen Time is the kind of time-travel story I'm always on the lookout for. I know I can't really speak for him, but I feel like Doc Brown would be onboard with this one.”—Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Three Dark Crowns series
“The hauntingly evocative prose seduced me, the compellingly nuanced characters captivated me, and the twisting storyline ensnared my thoughts in an infinite spiral that refused to release me until the final word.”—Romina Russell, New York Times bestselling author of the Zodiac series
Seattle, 1913
Dorothy spent her life learning the art of the con. But after meeting a stranger and stowing away on his peculiar aircraft, she wakes up in a chilling version of the world she left behind—and for the first time in her life, realizes she’s in way over her head.
New Seattle, 2077
If there was ever a girl who was trouble, it was one who snuck on board Ash’s time machine wearing a wedding gown—and the last thing he needs is trouble if he wants to prevent his terrifying visions of the future from coming true.
Stolen Time Danielle Rollins Books
Danielle Rollins' latest release, Stolen Time, is unlike any book she's written before. There's no horror or demons or monsters or magic of any kind. Instead, there's time travel via scientific means! It was an intriguing read, I will give you that. But it's also a time travel book, and with time traveling comes the need for explanation of how that works and how it's possible and all that. I quickly learned that it was all very scientific, VERY scientific. And as you all might know, science is not my subject!The story starts out with our heroine Dorothy, not Gale either. No, this Dorothy is a con woman, or young woman. She and her mother get by in life by running cons over wealthy young men. Dorothy's mother arranged for Dorothy to marry a young doctor who Dorothy has zero interest in, but money is money according to her mother. Dorothy however plans to play runaway bride and does. It's at that moment she meets Ash, who is in fact a time traveler, but she just thinks he's a pilot of some kind with a fancy airplane and after stowing away on it in order to escape the life that her mother planned for her, she learned just how wrong she was.
Ash is a pilot and he and his friends have been trying to find their missing professor, the one who brought most of them to this time in the future, 2077. He's gone missing and they fear the worst, but when Dorothy appears, a girl from 1913, things get a little complicated, but after her initial shock, Dorothy is more than willing to help out. She may be a con woman, but she's also a sixteen-year-old girl looking for an adventure and a place to belong.
Honestly, this story wasn't really all that bad! I enjoyed seeing these different characters who all came from different times come together and basically time travel for a living. What bogged me down were the excerpt from the professor's journal that explained in great detail how the time traveling came about, how it's possible, how it works...basically using words and terms that made no sense and having some of them even be made up. Yeah, that totally threw me through a loop!
Other than that, which did take up about 1/4 of the story at large, I really enjoyed the book. I loved the dynamics between Ash and Dorothy who didn't really gravitate towards one another at first. Ash has had a vision of his future that a woman he currently loathes will be the woman he loves and when he kisses her, she stabs him the gut, killing him. He's basically tried to stay away from love and relationships beyond the casual flirting and whatnot. So naturally, when Dorothy shows up, you just know his plan is about to be thrown out the window. And the possibilities and reasonings behind everything may not make sense at first but by the end you get the OH WOW revelation. I kind of suspected some of this along the way, but man, time travel books are trippy and totally mess with your mind! You have to read extra carefully.
The pacing to this one was pretty good. Nothing too slow or overly fast, it was honestly a nice steady pace but those journal interruptions really messed me up especially because they were science related and usually left me more confused than when I started. But reading them was necessary to know more about our secondary characters, mainly Ash's friends and crew.
I still feel like there are things we don't quite understand just yet and while the ending made some shocking revelations and cleared up a little bit of this and that, it also made things still rather difficult. There's still a lot we don't fully understand at this point and only future books will help us to fully understand what will happen to bring us to the future that Ash foresaw. This series is planned to be a trilogy so I will be interested to see what will happen in these next two books.
Stolen Time was a magical kind of read but without the actual magic, more science instead. Yet there was still a decent amount of magic that evolves from a good story. While I did struggle with some parts of the story here and there, I still found it to be an intriguing and engaging book overall. I will definitely be giving the second book a try come next year!
Overall Rating 3.5/5 stars
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Stolen Time Danielle Rollins Books Reviews
Stolen Time by Danielle Rollins is the first book of the new young adult science fiction fantasy Dark Stars series. This series is a time travel tale with a bit of romance and plenty of action that alternates the point of view between the two main characters, Dorothy and Ash.
Dorothy is from Seattle in the year 1913, she and her mother are grifters, or con artists. Being raised by a single mother that only knows how to scam men out of all of their wants and needs Dorothy has never known anything different. When the con goes to far however with Dorothy's hand in marriage promised to a wealthy doctor Dorothy can only think of escape.
Ash is a pilot from New Seattle in the year 2077 who makes the jump from his time back to 1913 only to run into a strange girl in a wedding dress. Ash doesn't think much of the encounter and focuses only on fixing her ship to return to his own time. However, as Ash is preoccupied Dorothy spots an opening in the ship and decides this would be her way out of the marriage that she dreads.
Stolen Time was a fun start to this new scifi series in which the author has taken a lot of time travel elements and worked them into her novel in her own way. I have to say I did like Ash a bit more than Dorothy in the story but Dorothy grew on me as it went along. The romance side is really light in this opener, perhaps there will be more in the future but for now this was heavier on the action. With this one ending on a cliffhanger to set up the next installment of the story I was already ready for the next book.
I received an advance copy from the publisher via Edelweiss.
This is a time travel story. It begins in 1913 when Dorothy, running away from a wedding engineered by her mother, stows away on a time machine piloted by Ash who is looking for the time machine's inventor. Soon, Dorothy finds herself in 2077 in a Seattle that has been decimated by earthquakes and tsunamis.
Seattle is a drowned city and a lawless one. A gang called the Black Cirkus is terrorizing everyone and definitely wants the professor's time machine. They want to go back to the past and prevent the disasters that happened.
Before he disappeared, the professor created a team of teenagers including his daughter Zora, Ash who is a WWII fighter pilot, Chandra who is a doctor who was taken BCE and brought up to speed on current medicine and English and who really loves 1980s television, and Willis who was a circus strongman in the 1900s. A teenaged genius named Roman was also part of the crew until he disagreed with the professor's plans and joined the Black Cirkus.
The story skips around in time as both the Black Cirkus and heroes are searching for the professor. Ash has seen some prememories that show that he'll be falling in love with a white haired girl who will kill him. He's hoping the professor can find a way to change that future. Dorothy has been raised as a con woman who doesn't trust anyone but who would really like to have friends and to have someone she can count on. Ash and Dorothy tell the story in alternate chapters. There are also interludes from the professor's journal which lets the reader know what he was thinking.
This was an entertaining story with twists and turns, intriguing characters, and an interesting setting.
Danielle Rollins' latest release, Stolen Time, is unlike any book she's written before. There's no horror or demons or monsters or magic of any kind. Instead, there's time travel via scientific means! It was an intriguing read, I will give you that. But it's also a time travel book, and with time traveling comes the need for explanation of how that works and how it's possible and all that. I quickly learned that it was all very scientific, VERY scientific. And as you all might know, science is not my subject!
The story starts out with our heroine Dorothy, not Gale either. No, this Dorothy is a con woman, or young woman. She and her mother get by in life by running cons over wealthy young men. Dorothy's mother arranged for Dorothy to marry a young doctor who Dorothy has zero interest in, but money is money according to her mother. Dorothy however plans to play runaway bride and does. It's at that moment she meets Ash, who is in fact a time traveler, but she just thinks he's a pilot of some kind with a fancy airplane and after stowing away on it in order to escape the life that her mother planned for her, she learned just how wrong she was.
Ash is a pilot and he and his friends have been trying to find their missing professor, the one who brought most of them to this time in the future, 2077. He's gone missing and they fear the worst, but when Dorothy appears, a girl from 1913, things get a little complicated, but after her initial shock, Dorothy is more than willing to help out. She may be a con woman, but she's also a sixteen-year-old girl looking for an adventure and a place to belong.
Honestly, this story wasn't really all that bad! I enjoyed seeing these different characters who all came from different times come together and basically time travel for a living. What bogged me down were the excerpt from the professor's journal that explained in great detail how the time traveling came about, how it's possible, how it works...basically using words and terms that made no sense and having some of them even be made up. Yeah, that totally threw me through a loop!
Other than that, which did take up about 1/4 of the story at large, I really enjoyed the book. I loved the dynamics between Ash and Dorothy who didn't really gravitate towards one another at first. Ash has had a vision of his future that a woman he currently loathes will be the woman he loves and when he kisses her, she stabs him the gut, killing him. He's basically tried to stay away from love and relationships beyond the casual flirting and whatnot. So naturally, when Dorothy shows up, you just know his plan is about to be thrown out the window. And the possibilities and reasonings behind everything may not make sense at first but by the end you get the OH WOW revelation. I kind of suspected some of this along the way, but man, time travel books are trippy and totally mess with your mind! You have to read extra carefully.
The pacing to this one was pretty good. Nothing too slow or overly fast, it was honestly a nice steady pace but those journal interruptions really messed me up especially because they were science related and usually left me more confused than when I started. But reading them was necessary to know more about our secondary characters, mainly Ash's friends and crew.
I still feel like there are things we don't quite understand just yet and while the ending made some shocking revelations and cleared up a little bit of this and that, it also made things still rather difficult. There's still a lot we don't fully understand at this point and only future books will help us to fully understand what will happen to bring us to the future that Ash foresaw. This series is planned to be a trilogy so I will be interested to see what will happen in these next two books.
Stolen Time was a magical kind of read but without the actual magic, more science instead. Yet there was still a decent amount of magic that evolves from a good story. While I did struggle with some parts of the story here and there, I still found it to be an intriguing and engaging book overall. I will definitely be giving the second book a try come next year!
Overall Rating 3.5/5 stars
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