The Future of Another Timeline

Wow! The Future Of Another Timeline is a bold and thought provoking look at the ways in which we try to edit history and the ripple effect that certain personal events have on the rest of our lives. 

Set in a world where time travel is possible, the Daughters of Harriet and Comstockers represent two opposing group of time travelers looking to edit the timeline. One seeks to liberate women, while the other desires to control them and both are willing to go to great lengths to change the future. These travelers are only able to go backwards in time so the novel is saturated with people, places, and events from our own history that give it an eerie familiarity. (I appreciated the historical appendix in the back of the book for additional context!)

The plot moves quickly and is easy to follow and the characters, who are at the heart of the story, are well fleshed out and memorable. The story is told through two POV’s: Beth exists in one timeline, traveling through the end of her teenage-dom and into young adulthood, and Tess, a traveler, jumps around the timeline on a high stakes mission. Just like our own history both journeys are violent, complicated, and messy but there is an undeniable warmth and kinship in the friendships these characters have that is lovely and stabilizing for the reader. At times, I was worried the science fiction and time travel elements weren’t going to be explained but the author was able to come up with creative ways to make everything track...and after a certain point when you’re reading science fiction you just have to suspend your disbelief. 

I definitely recommend this book! It's poignant and thrilling... but it should be noted that there are a number of triggering violent things that might make some people want to rethink reading this one.