This story is about is a time war gone wrong, and a hero (?) taking it upon himself to make sure no one ever discovers time travel again (or past? or…since? or whatever.) Our protagonist lives an idyllic life at the end of time. He is the last surviving warrior from the Causality War. He has engineered time such that he is just there, at the end, waiting for other time travelers to show up (and they always do) so he can eliminate them – and then time-travel back to their origins in order to change the environment that allowed them to learn how to time travel in the first place. He does this in service to his ultimate purpose, which is to never let humanity create another time war. Unfortunately for him, he’s a little bit wrong about the inevitability of the future he’s creating; visitors from the future arrive and his whole plan is turned upside down.
I liked this. I didn’t love it, and I’m not sure why. It was clever and pretty funny and has a lot of timey-wimey nonsense paradoxes that I usually enjoy. It’s got some twists and an unexpected cute not-romance. It’s got clever ideas tied up into a quick plot with a lot of dark humor; the tone is snarky and irreverent, which makes it easy to read but also frankly, by the end, a little annoying. I can’t decide if it was too long or too short or…? It was a book that I finished and was like, “huh! cool.”
Good for a clever, quick timey-wimey read. .
