Time Bomb

By: Joelle Charbonneau

Narrated by: Nina Alvamar

Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

Seven students trapped in their school after a bomb goes off must fight to survive while also discovering who among them is the bomber in this provocative new thriller from the author of the New York Times best-selling Testing Trilogy. Perfect for fans of This Is Where It Ends.

A congressman's daughter who has to be perfect. A star quarterback with a secret. A guy who's tired of being ignored. A clarinet player who's done trying to fit in. An orphaned rebel who wants to teach someone a lesson. A guy who wants people to see him, not his religion.

They couldn't be more different, but before the morning's over, they'll all be trapped in a school that's been rocked by a bombing. When they hear that someone inside is the bomber, they'll also be looking to one another for answers.

Told from multiple perspectives, Time Bomb will keep listeners guessing about who the bomber could be—and what motivated such drastic action.

©2018 Joelle Charbonneau (P)2018 Recorded Books

A fantastic book to listen to

Time Bomb was a really good book. It had action but also had a lot of emotion. This really hit home for me and I feel like it would hit home for a lot of other people. In the sense of being bullied and getting hurt but also getting better and learning how to love. This Book was sometimes a little confusing, each chapter switched perspectives so you have to really pay attention and get to know each of the characters. Overall this book really amazed me, I would definitely recommend.

A good who done it

Pretty good and kept me guessing. Characters seemed pretty realistic. What wasn’t realistic is how long they were in this school. Narrator was fantastic.

Wow, BEST BOOK EVER

This book was SOOOO good it’s crazy!! It’s been my favorite book of all times since I read it!! You have to read it, it’s one of the best books I think were ever written!!!! 😄😄

Not well executed or narrated

2.5 STARS

Four bombs explode inside a high school. Seven students trapped. One is the bomber. Another one gun has a gun. A senator’s daughter. A bullied girl. A Muslim. A mixed race gay football player. Another gay football player who also plays straight. An orphan and the girl trying to save him from himself. Not all will survive.

Long before Parkland, I preordered TIME BOMB, a different take on school shooting meets The Breakfast Club. Joelle Charbonneau uses six third person points of view to lay out the moment by moment story which takes place over six hours (not including the epilogue). While TIME BOMB held my interest, I didn’t feel invested in the students and the story lacked tension possibly due to so many characters.

I spent the first parts of the book thinking “I’m going to be SO MAD if Charbonneau makes Rashid the bomber.” Soon I had a different suspect, which turned out to be right (as well as obvious and unrealistic).

TIME BOMB is an interesting, but lackluster read.

Not my favorite

I chose to listen to this book because I enjoyed Joelle Charbonneau's "The Testing" series.

This book had good potential and I wanted to like it, but I got bored.

It starts off promising. The format is to view life from the eyes of a number of high school students. With the title of the book, you assume that one of the students is going to set off a bomb in the school. SPOILER ALERT. And that happens. In the early part of the book the reader is challenged to figure out which student will make that choice. The author does a good job of helping us see the pain in each life. That was a really insightful part of the book that I liked. I find it helpful to challenge stereotypes and this book started out to do that. So bravo for that.

However, when the bomb goes off, the scenes after that go on and on and on and on. I couldn't get through them. I wanted to know who did it, and so what. I wanted to get to the end of the story. But I found myself getting bogged down in a lengthy diatribe about rubble and escape plans. Just wasn't my preference so I stopped listening.