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Cargando... The Paradox Hotel : a novel (2022 original; edición 2022)por Rob Hart
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I have to confess that I have issues with most time travel stories—it seems to me they rarely get the issues right (e.g., don’t address possible time paradoxes, chaos theory and the butterfly effect) and often just use time travel as a gimmick to permit some anachronism that’s wanted for the plot. Paradox Hotel, despite its name, pays lip service to the issues but doesn’t really give a good technical resolution (“the timeline heals itself!”). I thought the tone was uneven: The protagonist is a wise-cracking, tough, often plain mean former time agent turned hotel security, but toward the end things tried to get deep and got surprisingly sentimental. I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator was just right for the first-person protagonist, but was just horrible at the accents of some of the other characters. ( ) I am a big fan of Rob Hart, loved his previous works, so I had high expectations for this. Unfortunately, it didn't hit the mark for me. I need to become invested in the characters in order to lose myself in the story. That never happened here. The story itself is convoluted and kind of all over the map. Characters pop in and out without any clear description of why they are there. Incidents are described which make no sense, only to be explained a few pages later (or more) later, causing even more confusion. I am not a fan of time travel stories or the SciFi genre and should have known better than to go against my better judgment with this one. My advice to Mr. Hart - stick to crime novels. 3.5 stars. I like this idea and most of the story is great, but there's maybe too many things happening? Or it just wasn't quite organized in a way that made sense. A time traveling hotel with a character who is "slipping", or losing her place in her timeline. A murder in the future, and ghosts? Excellent atmosphere and plot pieces. I couldn’t help being charmed in the end by this time travel novel, even though it tested my patience at times. It took me a while to get into but once I did, I was swept along. The MC, January, is head of security at a hotel where guests stay as they await their time travel journeys. A murder takes place ahead of an auction for the sale of the hotel, and January has to keep the peace while solving the mystery. This is complicated because she suffers from being unstuck in time due to her past work. This was whimsical and labyrinthine at the best of times. I didn’t like how some characters were dealt with in the end but, overall, a fun read. To be honest, sci-fi is the genre I tend to struggle with the most; however, I have been reading more excellent multi genre books that are mystery/sci-fi. I was hopeful this book would win me over also. This book was more science fiction and it overshadowed the mystery aspect. Being neurodivergent, I have an extremely difficult time processing and comprehending when you take a highly known brand name and then using that name as something entirely different. Also, making up weird names for common items that are the same thing in our world. It’s sometimes hard for me to decipher social conversations and situations without those added in unknown variables. If you do enjoy space travel with sci-fi then I would recommend reading it, and let me know what you think. Thank you for the gifted copy NetGalley. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"A locked-room murder mystery set at a hotel for time travelers--in which a detective must solve an impossible crime before her own grip on reality crumbles--from the author of The Warehouse On any ordinary day, the Fairbanks--affectionately known to its staff as the Paradox Hotel--is packed with ultra-rich tourists dressed for a dozen different time periods, all anxiously waiting to catch their "flights" to the past. And as if that weren't strange enough, proximity to the timeport makes for some odd side effects. The clocks run backwards on occasion, and ghosts sometimes stroll the halls--or so it's whispered. Now, though, half a dozen of the world's most powerful people have arrived for a summit. Or maybe auction's a better word. The prize: no less than control of time-travel technology itself. On top of that, the hotel's snowed in, and the timeline's acting even stranger than usual. Which means nobody's leaving until further notice. And there's a killer on the loose. Or, at least, that's what head of security January Cole suspects. Except the corpse she's found is one that, somehow, only she can see. And the accidents starting to befall their prestigious guests...well, the only way those could be assassination attempts is if the killer's operating invisibly and in plain sight, all at once. Which is surely impossible. And...well, even January's got to admit her credibility's not as strong as it could be. Because her gig here amounts to paid retirement, a pity posting for a former agent whose temporal perceptions have been so scrambled by the effects of timeline radiation that she's not fit for active duty. January's sure her condition is letting her glimpse something others can't. But she also knows her symptoms are getting worse--which means she might not solve this puzzle before she loses her grip on reality altogether"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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