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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
“Stolen Time is an explosive page-turner set in a richly imagined new world, with characters you can’t help but root for and a twist I never saw coming. I couldn’t stop reading!” — Morgan Rhodes, New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen Kingdoms series
“Pure fun with an explosive twist.” — Kirkus Reviews
“A delightfully fearless heroine and a delicious twist at the end make this a compelling trilogy starter.” — Booklist
Morgan Rhodes
Stolen Time is an explosive page-turner set in a richly imagined new world, with characters you can’t help but root for and a twist I never saw coming. I couldn’t stop reading!
Kendare Blake
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.
Romina Russell
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.
Booklist
A delightfully fearless heroine and a delicious twist at the end make this a compelling trilogy starter.
Booklist
A delightfully fearless heroine and a delicious twist at the end make this a compelling trilogy starter.
School Library Journal
02/01/2019
Gr 8 Up—Dorothy and Ash's love story spans centuries, but is set in motion when Dorothy, living in the year 1913, stows away aboard Ash's time machine and winds up in the year 2077. Plenty of cross-space-time adventure—and flirting—ensues. Rollins's sci-fi romance features a diverse cast of characters, which suits the plot's emphasis on access to all of space and time. Chapter headings clearly indicate whose point of view readers are meant to inhabit, and although perspectives and settings change nearly every chapter, these clear markers alleviate potential confusion. Most of the third-person narration alternates between Dorothy and Ash, with the exception of intermittent epistolary chapters written from the perspective of the mysteriously missing Professor, for whom Ash has been searching space-time for years. Paradoxes feature as heavy plot devices, and occasionally the exposition reads as clunky and ill-defined. Romance is the main focus of this trilogy, although both Dorothy and Ash spend so much time internally remarking on their own beauty, it's unclear whether they'll ever have the time to become an item. This light time-travel novel is fast-paced and sprinkled with just enough science-fiction tropes to satisfy most fans of the genre. VERDICT Recommended for purchase where teens are eager for more books similar to series by Kiera Cass and Alexandra Bracken.—Jessie Hedrick, Westmont Public Library, IL
Kirkus Reviews
2018-10-15
Dorothy, a Seattle con artist, time travels from 1913 to a drastically different Seattle of 2077.
Sixteen-year-old Dorothy, who is assumed white, has no intention of marrying a wealthy man so that her mother can fleece him. She makes her escape, stowing away on a strange aircraft that's crash-landed nearby. Dorothy soon finds herself in the mostly underwater New Seattle of 2077, which was devastated by a 9.3-magnitude earthquake two and a half years earlier. Along with handsome, blond Ash, a former World War II fighter pilot, she meets Chandra, a medical student from ancient India; Willis, a white circus strongman from 1917; and Zora, an African-American mechanic and the daughter of time machine inventor professor Zacharias Walker. Walker has disappeared, and the group must travel back in time to find him. The danger is greater than ever, and the fate of the world may be at stake. The very capable Dorothy, despite being taught never to trust, finds herself becoming fond of this motley crew…especially Ash. Unfortunately, the head of The Black Cirkus, a local gang, wants to use time travel for his own reasons and has plans for Dorothy. Rollins (Breaking, 2017, etc.) explores the potentially confusing mechanics and possible consequences of time travel with aplomb, and intricate action sequences in the eerie New Seattle and a military base in 1980 are thrilling.
Pure fun with an explosive twist. (Science fiction. 13-17)
