My Review: Dead Time by DL Orton 📚✍⏳

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Been awhile huh?

How was your Halloween? Hope everything went well and good.

Today, I present to you my review of Dead Time by DL Orton.

Synopsis: 

Shannon fights to stay alive inside a rogue biodome and discovers something totally unexpected... Peter. 

Lani is forced into the role of the reluctant heroine but rediscovers her street-kid mojo and sets out to find everything she's lost. 

Diego receives another dirty sock (and a note) from the fireball express: The window between universes is closing. If Diego has any hope of getting back to Iz, he must get to the Magic Kingdom and fix the time machine before it's too late. 

What could possibly go wrong?


So let's get right to it.

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My Review:

Coming off of books one and two, I was familiar with the characters and the story as a whole so I was all too eager to get into this to see what would happen next in this gripping, time-travel based suspenseful mystery. 

Personally, it helped to become familiar with these two works first because Orton pulls you in right into those works. This one was no different as it continues the story from book two, Lost in Time.

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Dead Time surrounds favorites Diego, Shannon, Isabella, and Lani—among others in the aftermath of the previous apocalyptic destruction and the aftermath as first discussed in Crossing Time—concerning where they left off. 

At first, it felt as if there was an overhaul of characters and I’ll admit there were many which cause a little difficulty in remembering who was whom and how they were connected. 

But, the further I got, it got easier to pinpoint the vital connections between characters as well as where they'd left off. 

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Speaking of which, one of the characters that I followed consistently was Shannon, who was kidnapped by a bunch of religious zealots (because “fear of dying makes you do some crazy shit”) and subsequently forced to marry with this disgusting den of predators.

Her story terrified me. Even as Orton tuned the reader into each of the other characters of the story, I couldn’t wait to get back to hers to find out what happened and if she would get freed. 


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I was also drawn to her because of the personality illustrated in the passages. It seems that she experiences what we all would go through emotionally in such a situation or any other hopeless case that might take place in our lives; despair, denial, hopelessness, desperation, determination, fight, and the like. 

Orton gets props from me for making just this character alone with such a real embodiment of the human condition. This is one of the aspects that I loved in the writing: the emotion. There was more showing than telling. Even with a subject matter so seemingly far-fetched as time-travel, the details of emotion and other aspects is woven together with just the right amount of realism to broaden the suspense and mystery.

So, if you like mysteries with an edge of time-travel, thrills, and romance, I suggest you pick this up.  

I give it four out of five stars.