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Now, Then, and Everywhen
by Rysa Walker
Series: Chronos Origins #1
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Published by 47North on April 7, 2020
Genres: Time Travel Sci-Fi
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of the Chronos series comes a page-turning novel of time travel, fast-paced action, and history-changing events.
When two time-traveling historians cross paths during one of the most tumultuous decades of the twentieth century, history goes helter-skelter. But which one broke the timeline?
In 2136 Madison Grace uncovers a key to the origins of CHRONOS, a time-travel agency with ties to her family’s mysterious past. Just as she is starting to jump through history, she returns to her timeline to find millions of lives erased—and only the people inside her house realize anything has changed.
In 2304 CHRONOS historian Tyson Reyes is assigned to observe the crucial events that played out in America’s civil rights movement. But a massive time shift occurs while he’s in 1965, and suddenly the history he sees isn’t the history he knows.
As Madi’s and Tyson’s journeys collide, they must prevent the past from being erased forever. But strange forces are at work. Are Madi and Tyson in control or merely pawns in someone else’s game?
Now Then and Everywhen by Rysa Walker is my first book by Ms. Walker, and it won’t be my last. I loved this one and how both Madi’s and Tyson’s voices are both uniquely different, along with how they can stop this current catastrophe.
Will Madi and Tyson reverse this time shift?
Madison “Madi” Grace
Madi Grace is a bright young woman who must go through her great grandfather’s house to do her thesis project and get it ready to go to Georgetown University to pay her tuition. Well, that is until it all unravels when she finds a time-traveling device and proof that in a few years that she is the one that founded it. All of that in mind brings the young twentyish year old’s head spinning. She brings the group together, and eventually, they try to wrap their minds around this whole thing. Madi also uncovers some secrets from both sides of her family that they would rather stay buried. What I like about Madi is that she is taking everything that has happening to her in stride. She hopes that she wasn’t just hallucinating any of it. Another thing that I like is that despite what she knows could happen if she tells too much, she tries to do the right thing always.
Tyson Reyes
Tyson is a bright young man that is an agent for the Chronos place and has been for most of his life. He is a kind-hearted young man that takes his assignments in stride and tries to do them in a timely fashion without interfering with people that he doesn’t like. Well, that is until the timeshift happens when he is in the past at a speech, and Tyson has no clue what to do about it. Tyson and his group of friends try to fix it themselves, but they hit some snags when trying to figure out how to go about it. He is smart enough to figure out a way to do it. What I like about him is that Tyson is more intelligent than what people give him credit for. Especially when it comes to duping everyone regarding his undercover looks. Tyson is a good guy despite what he has unknowingly put himself and everyone that has been trying to stop the timeshift from getting more significant.
Five Stars
Now Then and Everywhen by Rysa Walker was fantastically written, and I love how even though it’s science fiction but that it pertains to kind of what we are trying to do today. Well, with the genetically changing a particular thing with an offspring that we don’t want them to have. Diving into this Chronos universe was a new experience for me, and I loved it. I can’t wait to read the next book.
I am giving this book five stars and recommending it to anyone that loves science fiction and time travel.
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Happy Reading!
About Rysa Walker
RYSA WALKER is the author of the bestselling CHRONOS Files series. Timebound, the first book in the series, was the Young Adult and Grand Prize winner in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. The CHRONOS Files has sold nearly half a million copies since 2013 and has been translated into fourteen languages.
In addition to speculative fiction, she occasionally writes mysteries as C. Rysa Walker.
Rysa currently resides in North Carolina with her husband, two youngest sons, and a hyperactive golden retriever. When not working on the next installment in her CHRONOS Files universe, she watches shows where travelers boldly go to galaxies far away, or reads about magical creatures and superheroes from alternate timelines. She has neither the time nor the patience for reality TV.
If you see her on social media, please tell her to get back into the writing cave.
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