After being thrust through a rift in time, 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls KJ, Mac, and Tiff land in 2016 Cleveland. They search for their missing friend Erin, only to encounter her adult self living a lonely suburban life. This sequel shifts from the 1980s aesthetic to a modern landscape filled with digital surveillance and giant tardigrade monsters. The girls must outrun the Old Watch, a group of elder time-travelers enforcing strict chronological laws, while grappling with the unsettling knowledge of their own future fates and personal tragedies.
Fans of speculative fiction read this series for its intricate timeline mechanics and character-driven mystery. It serves readers who enjoy dissecting the paradoxes of temporal displacement and the friction between childhood innocence and adult disillusionment. A reader walks away with a perspective on how identity shifts across decades and the specific ways younger versions of themselves might judge the adults they eventually become. It provides a gritty look at nostalgia by forcing young protagonists to face the reality of their own aging and mortality.
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
