This book pulled me in quickly. I was intrigued - and then terribly confused. This is a different take on "time travel". Very scientific explanation of people moving around in time. The scientists' reasoning behind trying this experiment was admirable: trying to prevent death, illness, bad things from happening. Simply ;) place someone onto a different timeline and the bad event on their original timeline will never happen. Well, it is never as simple as that, is it?
The middle of the book slogged a bit and was incredibly confusing as Mandy kept seeing/hearing Mandy and sometimes she was solid and sometimes she wasn't and Mandy never really seemed to know which Mandy she was at any particular time on any particular timeline. Or should I say Eloise.... Hmmm.... I certainly understand why both Dane and Mandy thought they were crazy for most of the book!
I did love the magic though. I loved the shows that first brought people in to see Mandy at the coffee shop (although I don't think the reader needed to "see" each and every show that she performed at the coffee shop!) I liked the explanation of Mandy's magic (Mandy on different "Mandy timelines" making things move) instead of it just being "supernatural" events. I loved how Mandy and Dane fell in love all over again, even though they desperately tried not to because of their age difference. And I liked the effect of "The Grand Illusion", although I had a hard time believing that all the events, actions and thoughts happened within the one minute of the hour glass timer!! Mandy must think and act faster than the speed of light! Wow!
I had no idea who was "good" and who was "bad" for most of the book. It was hard to know who Mandy should be trusting and who she shouldn't be trusting, but I guess that was the author's intent.
The end was fairly predictable, but the ride there was fast-paced (a lot happened within the "minute" of The Grand Illusion!) and satisfying.
Wendy's Rating: ****
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