The possibility of time travel, the potential existence of parallel universes, and even the concept of the multiverse are based on respected work from highly reputable physicists and mathematicians. Many authors base the fantastical elements of their books on creative scientific theories. In Sixteen Minutes by K.J. Reilly Nell, Cole, and Stevie B, are intrigued by new girl Charlotte who says she's from Everywhere. Although he is in love with Nell, Cole agrees to travel to the future with Charlotte, for a chance to stop a tragedy. Stealing Time by Tilia Jacobs and Norman Birnbach, finds Tori traveling from 2020 to 1980 to help her father prevent a jewelry heist that destroys her family. An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson focuses on Lennon Carter, who is invited to apply to Drayton College, where students learn the art of persuasion to bend people and reality to their will.
Sixteen Minutes introduces teenagers Nell, Cole, and Stevie B, who have grown up in the small town of Clawson, New York, “two hours south of nothin’ and just north of nowhere.” Although Nell and Cole are a couple, artist Stevie B barely disguises his love for Nell, as he fills his artist notebooks with sketches of her. When Charlotte, who says she is from “Everywhere,” arrives in Clawson, she quickly captures Cole’s attention. Although he professes his love for Nell, he is with Charlotte constantly. Nell and Stevie B find out that Charlotte is a time traveler from 2101 who can save Cole’s younger sister Finn from a terminal illness, if he returns to the future with her. But will they allow Cole to go alone? Now knowing that time travel is real, and a multiverse of futures await them, they have the option to live lives they could have only dreamed about. The author’s note at the end of the book discusses the viable science behind time travel and multiverses.
In Stealing Time Tori Gold is growing up in New York during the outbreak of Covid-19 and her parents' impending divorce. When she time travels from 2020 to 1980, she wonders why she is there. Then she realizes she has landed in her father Bobby’s bedroom and meets him as a teenager. She discovers that a jewelry heist forty years ago sent her grandfather to jail and destroyed her family. Bobby, after some convincing, believes that she is from the future and is here to prevent the heist of the Desert Sun diamond from the museum where her grandfather curates the gems displays. A gang of thugs is planning to steal the diamond, but Bobby and Tori band together to stop the heist and clear her grandfather of the crime. The trope of traveling back in time to meet family members is handled with humor and fun, although the adventure is packed with danger.
Dark academia is a literary genre that features a dark, gothic aesthetic and themes of academia, intellectualism, and secret societies. An Academy for Liars introduces Lennon Carter, whose life is imploding, when she gets an invitation to take an entrance exam to Drayton College, a school where students learn the art of persuasion to bend people and reality to their will. Lennon’s advisor Dante is convinced she is particularly gifted and supports and rescues her whenever she gets out of her depths. As she gains control over her powers, she learns she is able to create elevators that open to not only different worlds, but also times in the past. She is destined to play an integral role in the well-being of the school. This is my first introduction to the genre (unless you count the Harry Potter series), which makes me curious about other books to recommend. This book is for mature readers as the violence and sexual encounters are fairly graphic.
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