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Time Shards by Dana Fredsti and David Fitzgerald. If I had to sum up this book with one word, it would be "Fun!". If I could have a couple more, they'd be "well written and well researched". Yeah, using "well" twice when you have limited words is a waste.
Picture time as a stained glass window. All of the past stretches in one direction, all of the future in another. Now imagine that glass getting hit with something and shattering to pieces. A piece, say with dinosaurs, lands next to a piece with a 1950's American housewife on it, which lands next to a piece with a tribe from Roman Brittania, next to a shard with a scientist from the 23rd century on it... etc. All the people and animals can now easily walk around, leaving their shard.
I'm not a historian, but all the history stuff (so much of it!) seemed really well researched. Characters (at least when they spoke the same language) sounded like they were from whatever era they had originally been from.
Tossing dinosaurs, earlier creatures (sea scorpion things! slime molds!), extinct mega-fauna, and all that into a world where buildings, cars, and people got split in half (lots died, anyone on the edge of their shard either vanished or got cut off where the shard's edge was created).
It was just such a cool, fun idea, and the two authors wrote it well. The only part I didn't enjoy reading about was the torture and attempted rapes, though they made sense in the story's (shard's!) setting.
DNF #93: Waer by Meg Caddy. I read it and had loved it in 2016. (Thanks to my Kindle technical issues, this one got back on my Kindle a second time.) Even though I enjoyed it a lot, I remembered too much of the story to want to read it again.
DNF #94: Tiger Shifter Academy by Jayme Morse. I read it back in 2021 and DNFed it 13% in (thanks, Kindle issue, for making me give it a second chance...). It was no better this time. Amazon blurb: "Four sexy tiger shifters want to claim me as their mate." Blech.
DNF #95: The Survivors of Bastion by Will Hawthorne. I had thought I had read this one before as well, but either it was so long ago that I didn't write a review of it or I never read it. Either way, it was a zombie story, which I don't really enjoy, plus the writing was flat. DNFed.
