Posts Tagged ‘time travel’

Plotwise, it’s boy saves girls life with amazing time-travelling device, but girl is caught in a loop of being murdered by persons unknown while boy tries to stop her getting killed but ends up caught in a dastardly plan involving goblins, sneaky underhanded business deals, an uber dragon, a missing insurance man, and a series of paradoxical mind-bending time-travelling scenarios which would make Doctor Who dizzy. There’s also a dog, so you can see it’s pretty much got everything.

The novel seems, to me, to explore the frailties and insecurities not necessarily of a person, but of a people. When things seem perfect, we would doubt the reality in which we live. Zaq’s behaviour stemmed much from his disbelief in his reality – something a Mister T. Covenant could relate to – and it was like he was consumed with a desperate need to rock the boat simply because he didn’t want to believe the water was actually deep.