Time is the third and final book in the Law of Physics trilogy. I have to confess that it took me a long time to read this book. I had it checked out of the library for weeks but it just kept sitting on my desk and I kept renewing it until I had no options left. I’m not sure why it took me so long to get to this book. I guess I kind of lost interest in the series after being away from it for a while. I read the first two books fairly quickly, right after one another, but then I waited a bit for the third book and I suppose in that period where I had to wait, I lost interest. [This is why I don’t like trilogies or series where you have to read the next book in the series in order to have some sort of resolution.]
Like the other books in the series, this book was short, just over 200 pages. I finally sat down and read it one morning over the weekend.
Mona and Abram are now a couple and are trying to balance a long-distance relationship. Abram’s band is on tour and Mona is researching at CERN in Geneva. This book is mainly about them navigating their long-distance romance. There are a lot of time skips and the author doesn’t really tell us how much time has actually passed so I’m not sure what the time periods this book is supposed to cover. Both the previous books, Motion and Space, took place over approximately 1 week but I believe this one is to take place over a year’s time at least.
Like the last book, this book is told in both Mona and Abram’s point of view. Mona continues to be her quirky and introverted self. She still hasn’t quite grasped all the nuances of social interactions but she’s trying and learning.
Abram is, to be honest I didn’t really like the character of Abram so much in this book. I guess because, in the first book, we don’t get his point of view so we don’t know what he’s thinking. The second book, all he thinks about is how angry is at Mona. This book, all he seems to think about is how much he wants to have sex with her. It was as if once they decided they were going to be in a relationship, all his thoughts shifted to how he could get her in bed. I guess it was supposed to be sexy but I just thought it was kind of crude.
Really, this book is just about how each of them pines for the other while they’re apart and when they get together all they do is have sex. Of course, there’s a happy ending but I didn’t like this one as much as the others. Perhaps I will go back and read the rest of Penny Reid’s backlist so that I can see which other characters showed up in the books, but it’s not really necessary.
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