AN OCEAN OF MINUTES
by Thea Lim
Touchstone
Publication Date: July 10, 2018
From Goodreads:
America is in the grip of a deadly flu. When Frank gets sick, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him. She agrees to a radical plan—time travel has been invented in the future to thwart the virus. If she signs up for a one-way-trip into the future to work as a bonded labourer, the company will pay for the life-saving treatment Frank needs. Polly promises to meet Frank again in Galveston, Texas, where she will arrive in twelve years.
But when Polly is re-routed an extra five years into the future, Frank is nowhere to be found. Alone in a changed and divided America, with no status and no money, Polly must navigate a new life and find a way to locate Frank, to discover if he is alive, and if their love has endured.
This one wasn’t for me. And I don’t just mean I didn’t love it. I think I was the wrong audience for a book like this.
The synopsis excited me with its talk of time travel and epidemics. But that stuff was practically a prologue.
What followed was a coming of age story of sorts. Polly is dropped into a new world. It’s still Earth, but has practically become a foreign country. Not just because of advanced technology, but because of political changes, class systems, and insane amounts of bureaucracy.
I guess at the heart of it all, it was supposed to be a romance? I ask, because I don’t really know. I’ve read stories with romance in them, but never a story that was just a romance.
I was interested enough that I had to get to the end and find out what happened, so that’s a credit to the author and story, but again, I was just the wrong reader for this story.
The synopsis makes it sound SO good! But I’m really not a fan of romance so I doubt I’d like it..