Conundrum

The Collapse, Book 6

By: Penelope Wright

Narrated by: Penelope M. Wright

The Collapse is here. Titanic waves leave behind devastation, chaos, and a surprising survivor who will challenge everything Rosie thought she knew about the Towers.

And in 2074, as David slips the last few pieces of the puzzle into place, he realizes he’s built a bombshell, one that could easily blow his whole world apart.

Sacrifices run high, with consequences that reverberate in every direction: past, present, and future.

Rosie’s fate has always been ordained.

Or has it?

©2020 Penelope M. Wright (P)2021 Penelope M. Wright

Lots of good, some bad

First, I need to say that writing a time travel story with “conundrums” and actively trying to mess with the timeline must be some of the hardest writing there is, and Mrs. Wright does an excellent job of it. Most time travel stories either try to avoid messing with the timeline as much as possible or they end up leaving plot holes and loose threads all over like they are throwing candy from a parade float. Mrs. Wright does an amazing job, it’s a complicated story that you want to read multiple times to really catch all the time travel changes. I can honestly see her writing each character in chronological order and splitting it up later or having had a story board with more pages then the actual books. It was honestly masterful how she had things that were cannon and then gradually the cannon got changed because of what her characters did and I would sit there and go “wait, that isn’t the future that she had talked about earlier”. I have read a lot of time travel books and the way she did it was one of my favorites. That is what she did well and she was, as I said, masterful at it but there were a lot of things that made this series really hard to get through. First and foremost when I realized that it was the writer narrating I gave her a lot of grace, for being the writer and not a narrator she did an amazing job but …so many mispronunciations…so many. Every time in the first couple books that she would say “detritus” I wanted to scream. I know it isn’t a big deal and in the last book, in the authors notes she makes fun of a word she mispronounced and how someone caught it and she changed it…for the love of God could you please have the same people edit all your books. Second, and this is my biggest problem with the books, enough that I have written another review talking about this. This should have been a trilogy. Besides the fact that it annoyed me that I had to put up credits for six books when it should have been three, the real problem is that these books kept reminding the reader of what happened. Instead of reminding me three times that this person is “My litter mate and I love her” it seemed like I had to be reminded of that every time the character was brought up. I felt like a third of the later books were filled with reminders of who everyone was and why I should care. It took away from the story and makes it difficult to go through the books again which this series totally asks the readers to do. When did Lt. Columbia emerge and what was going on during that time? How did the timeline change and why? These are the questions that make me want to re-listen to this series and instead I have to keep getting reminded about how the main character meet Carlos and what he means to her. That being said, this series was excellent and anger inducing at the same time. It is a series that I would love to go through multiple times while also making me want to rage quit every time. I think that if Mrs. Penelope Wright can get out of her own way she is going to be a force to be reckoned with. I hope she does, because I would love to read version 2.0 of this series.

Also I would have loved for the book at the end to have 102 mysteries. Seriously, it wasn’t enough of a mystery what happened to Sarah to get a nod in the book?