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    A Catch in Time

    By Dalia Roddy

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReputation Books
    Release dateApr 25, 2014
    ISBN9780991363520
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    • 4/5
      Title: A Catch in Time: Flash Forward mixed with The StandThe Setup:-Note-: If you don't like even tiny spoilers, stop reading at conclusion 1. It's a normal day and everyone is going about their daily live when suddenly everyone on the planet blacks out for a few seconds. Some didn't experience anything at all, or they don't remember, while others experienced a great truth. When everyone comes to, the world has changed. Many people simply vanished, didn't wake up or were killed in various accidents that occurred as the result of the Blackout. The “Blackout” as it comes to be known also had a few side effects that no one can explain. The first is that for some unknown reason all births post blackout, including animals and plants, have some kind of mutation, often fatal. The second is that there is a strange madness that is spreading through out the world, making those inflicted almost feral and addicted to any kind of violence. As the dust settles the people of the world try to hold onto the crumbling remnants of civilization, in a world that will never be the same. The Story:Lara was one of the few that experienced the “truth” during the Blackout. Not that she knows what it means or anything, she just knows that it should have been a good thing. Instead she wakes up to a world that that is much more chaotic and confused than the one she was in before she blacked out for a couple of seconds. All she knows is that the world is different and that her and her unborn child are now on their own. Luckily Lara soon finds others that survived the initial chaos of the Blackout and they form a small group that begins to search for a new place to call home. Mack, Lara'a fiancee, is also on a journey, though it's not the one that he started out on pre-blackout. Along the way he runs into Conrad, Lara's brother, and a young boy who's family was killed in the chaos that followed the blackout. While Conrad just wants to get back to his family and return to whatever passes for normal life, Mack has other plans. You see Mack also found another sort of truth when he came to. In time all that come in contact with it will learn to fear it and him. As nature becomes more corrupted and the people of the world look to find hope where ever they can get it, there is still one question that no one can answer. What caused the blackout and how can its effects be reversed?Conclusion 1: A good read. It takes awhile to get started and some of the characters can be a little one note early on. The story and the characters get better as the plot progresses and the end is worth getting too even if everything seems a little too neatly wrapped. Give it a read if you like end of the world thrillers / adventures with a spiritual twist. m.a.cConclusion 2:This was an interesting story. It reminded me of both Flash Foward by Robert J. Sawyer and the Stand by Stephen King. In away it also reminded me of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I'm not going to give away the twist, but it is a different take on what influences life to evolve and what might happen if one of those selections was performed too soon or by force. While I liked the story it did have a few hiccups here and there. The main character can be a little... too hopeful sometimes and a few of the other initial characters seem to have tunnel vision for most of the story till around the end, where they get fleshed out. The journey to the end of the story is entertaining and has some good scenes. The end of the book while good, seemed to wrap things up a little to neatly. I just think it could have been a little larger, but that's just me. All in all it's an interesting read. If you like end of the world adventures or thrillers with a spiritual twist take a look at this one. m.a.c
    • 3/5
      Similar to "the stand" with a slightly more interesting fundamentalist dystopia and a telegraphed last-minute "plot twist". It was interesting enough to keep me hanging on until the finish, though.
    • 1/5
      A Catch in Time by Dalia RoddyGenre: Horror, sci-fiRating: 3, DNFThe thing about a book is that it has to draw you in, then hook you, and make you want to read it. A Catch in Time was the kind that scared you into reading further, twisted your mind, and made you avoid it. Would it make sense to say that for this reason it was both good and bad? Every time I opened this book, I had trouble putting it down. I liked it a lot--except for the writing and the characters. The writing was full of fragments and, in general, mediocre. I despise the characters. Few of them have any redeeming qualities, and after 100 pages half of them are not developed well enough to know them very well or be individual personalities. But the only character I like is the dog.Maybe horror isn't my genre? Or maybe it was the fragments. repeated and pointless fragments. that got to me.
    • 3/5
      I picked up "A Catch in Time" because it sounded very similar to the book (and series) "Flash forward". The premise is that every person on earth blacks out simultaneously. Unlike in "Flash Forward", only a very few remember what they saw, and it was not the future. So many died in the incident that society collapses, and, as usual in these types of books, small groups of survivors band together bound by eccentric beliefs. Many of them have become religious fundamentalists, partly because something is wrong with some of the survivors, and many of the births are mutants. I had a hard time getting into the story. I didn't think it was very well written, and I didn't find any of the characters compelling. The characters spend a bit of time talking about their theories about the blackout, and often that seemed really repetitive. There are alot of other, better end of the world type books out there, and I would recommend not to bother with this one.