Paradox Bound by Peter Clines

Paradox Bound by Peter Clines
My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Jacket Blurb: Eli’s willing to admit it: he’s a little obsessed with the mysterious woman he met years ago. Okay, maybe a lot obsessed. But come on, how often do you meet someone who’s driving a hundred-year-old car, clad in Revolutionary-War era clothes, wielding an oddly modified flintlock rifle—someone who pauses just long enough to reveal strange things about you and your world before disappearing in a cloud of gunfire and a squeal of tires?

So when the traveler finally reappears in his life, Eli is determined that this time he’s not going to let her go without getting some answers. But his determination soon leads him into a strange, dangerous world and a chase not just across the country but through a hundred years of history—with nothing less than America’s past, present, and future at stake.

Read for May 2021 book group.

I honestly didn't know what to expect when I started this, but was pleasantly surprised and found myself enjoying it overall. As was discussed in book group, this isn't so much "time-travel" as "history-travel". I thought the book had interesting concepts, good characters, and even better cars and trains. There were a couple of plot hiccups, but nothing that pulled me completely out of the book.

My one tiny complaint with the over reaching plot was the faceless men. It felt like something missing, an aspect or component that would have helped to more fully conceptualize them beyond "the bad guys". I also found their method of recruitment a bit...unsettling, perhaps more so disturbing.

This made for a light, engaging read that was a perfect way to unwind at the end of the day. Recommended.

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