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Love Logan

Tilly Keyes

3.93 · Rating details · 14 ratings · 12 reviews

Zero’s teleportation machine is the talk of the town, but opening night, it fails, leaving him a laughingstock. However, unknowingly, the machine pulls someone from the twentieth century and spits them out in Zero’s time.

Logan has strange, dull clothing and bland hair, and when he opens his mouth, it gets worse. He’s afraid of everything, but worst of all, his talk of love ...more

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Published December 21st 2020 by NineStar Press

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Jan 06, 2021 Joyfully Jay rated it really liked it

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4.25 stars

Love Logan is a get-together story by Tilly Keyes that takes place largely in the 41st century amid a very changed planet Earth. Culturally, the world Zero comes from measures everything in terms of success and worthiness of being remembered. Concepts like love are, if not taboo, then certainly worthy of ridicule. For the purposes of this story, the world building feels well structured around what’s important or relevant for the characters. I also appreciated tha ...more

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Jan 01, 2021 Laura rated it really liked it

Thank you to the publisher NineStar Press LLC and NetGalley for the review copy.

I love books about time travel and this one here is quite unique.

Zero’s teleportation machine is the talk of the town in 4021. It could be the next big thing, even bigger than the flying cars Zero's ex boyfriend had supposedly invented. If only it would work!
Unfortunately however, on opening night, the machine fails. And the disastrous show turns Zero into the laughingstock of the town.

"Stupid Zero, thinking he co ...more

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Jan 11, 2021 Laura H rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 0-stand-alone, 4-mm-romance, 97-fantasy-paranormal

Wow, i am speechless... This book was so unexpectedly perfect for me and i just fell in love from the first moment. I am always a little wary of timetravel, but i loved it here and enjoyed the mcs so much.

Zero is such a fun, flawed and beautiful character. He is definitely going to be a favourite of mine. The conflict with what he knows in his time, the struggle with his goals and being selfish. Yet his showmanship and his wonder at magic, he has so much growth throughout this book and it was in ...more

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Dec 22, 2020 bookittothelibrary rated it it was amazing

*I received this eARC for my honest review from NetGalley*
I absolutely adored this book, it is set in the 41st century and it has everything flying cars, planets different islands high up buildings all the way to the 800th floor and counting. the world the author has built is so unique and different. This book follows Zero and how he just wants to succeed and be known for something and when his teleportation machine goes wrong and ends up being a time machine he has alot more to worry about than ...more

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Jan 01, 2021 Veronica of V's Reads rated it really liked it

4.5 Stars

Zero is a human living in the underground world of Earth in the fourth millenium. He's a handy guy, a picker-fixer who aspires to be an inventor. In this world, no one lives above ground, as the atmosphere was destroyed by nuclear war time out of mind ago. Along with humans in this subterranean existence are Furists and Cold-Blooded. This means they are humanoid fur-covered beings, like giant cats, or scaly ambulatory snake-like people. These are not mutants, their ancestors arrived fro 4.5 Stars

Zero is a human living in the underground world of Earth in the fourth millenium. He's a handy guy, a picker-fixer who aspires to be an inventor. In this world, no one lives above ground, as the atmosphere was destroyed by nuclear war time out of mind ago. Along with humans in this subterranean existence are Furists and Cold-Blooded. This means they are humanoid fur-covered beings, like giant cats, or scaly ambulatory snake-like people. These are not mutants, their ancestors arrived from other planets looking for shelter as their home worlds died. The social structure in this time is not family-groups. Children may be raised by their parents until they are 10, but are then turned loose within the "islands" of population where they are expected to manufacture a living from whatever skills they possess. If they show themselves to be industrious, these foundlings can earn a basic apartment and token credits to get food. If anyone from this time stops earning and runs out of the tokens or food to sustain themselves they will be shipped out to another planet, likely to scrape an existence from the recycling dumps they have made of other worlds.

Zero wants to be more than a simple technician for fruit pickers. He has been building a teleportation device using scavenged parts for nearly ten years. He scrimped and saved his tokens to buy a theater in which to demonstrate his device for the wealthy Elite, who live in a hovering island above the rabble of commoners below. One of these Elite is Apollo, A former Lover of Zero's who took his design ideas for improving hovercars and made himself an Elite, abandoning Zero. Apollo never stays away from Zero for long, relishing the power he has over him as and Elite, and enjoying any slights and suffering Zero experiences. Instead of teleporting Zero, this device brings a man from they year 2021 into his own time. Zero doesn't know this, at first. He thinks this plain and unusual "Logan" person was paid by Apollo to ruin his device, and humiliate him in front of his audience. Zero is bitter and furious, and leaves Logan in the care of his best friend and assistant, a Furian called Honey.

It is Honey that determines Logan must have come from somewhere else, because he's terrified by "cat-people" and his reactions prompt Zero to investigate. He's not happy to discover his teleporter is a time machine. he can't use that for any social or monetary currency in his world. If anyone discovered Logan's origin, he'd be studied or killed, and Zero's too wound up in his own disgrace to really care that Logan is a man out of time. It is only more irritating that Logan's ancient sensibilities, like "love" and "family ties", are somehow resonating with Honey. She convinces Zero to fix the machine to send Logan back, but this will take time and tokens, two things Zero is running short on--especially once Logan's ineptitude costs Zero his day job.

Meanwhile, as Zero endeavors to repair his device, he's unwillingly charmed by Logan's card tricks and "magic", another unfamiliar concept. It turns out that Logan's father was a successful magician in his time, and Logan often studied as his assistant. The magic he performs seems much like what Zero would like to produce scientifically, and the rapport grows between them. This is dangerous, naturally, because Logan is meant to return to his own time, but also, the unfamiliar feelings associated with that love concept are interfering with Zero's ability to provide for himself and Logan. Apollo's lurking on the edges, hoping to exploit Zero's vulnerabilities, as well.

This is a magical and intriguing dystopian love story, with two great MCs finding love in the most unexpected way. Logan is so out of his element, he's quaint and trite in the most basic sense of wishing both for a return home and also for true love building between himself and Zero. For his part, Zero is a selfish man--because that is the prime directive of his society. Sex is sex, and work is currency in his world. He could trade himself for sex to earn the tokens he needs to manage his life and help Logan, but doing so will alienate Logan, who's rather puritanical about the situation.

I adored the world-building here, and the love story as it developed. There were great moments of tension, especially as Zero built the device that would take his one true love far away to the past. His own impending bankruptcy and inevitable removal from society is also a great emotional hurdle, promising hurt on top of hurt before the climax. I loved Zero myself long before he solved his problems and found his happily ever after. Highly recommend! ...more

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Dec 26, 2020 Zaba Cita Novine rated it it was ok

Shelves: netgalley

Sadly, this book just wasn't my cup of tea.

The year is 4021. Parents send their children to other planets when they are 10 to start their adult lives. Your status is everything, and concepts like love and friendship do not exist.
Zero is a zero, he fails in everything he does and so the teleportation machine he is building in hope of becoming successful and famous (and proving his ex-boyfriend Apollo that he is better than him) turns out to be a time machine. A time machine that sucks in an unsus Sadly, this book just wasn't my cup of tea.

The year is 4021. Parents send their children to other planets when they are 10 to start their adult lives. Your status is everything, and concepts like love and friendship do not exist.
Zero is a zero, he fails in everything he does and so the teleportation machine he is building in hope of becoming successful and famous (and proving his ex-boyfriend Apollo that he is better than him) turns out to be a time machine. A time machine that sucks in an unsuspecting 21-year-old Logan from 2021.

Logan is, of course, afraid of flying cars, 800-storey buildings, underground gardens and cat people, called Furists (I puked here a little) who walk upright and talk, and LICK PEOPLE ON THEIR CHEEKS instead of kissing them.

Logan also teaches Zero and Honey, the licking Furist, about things like love and magic, and so on.

Now, the characters, to me, seemed more like caricatures.
For example, Logan, a 21-year-old, stomps his foot on the ground in anger and cries when "magic" is called stupid. Zero throws a tantrum when mauve is refereed to as purple. And Honey LICKS PEOPLE ON THEIR CHEEKS.

As for the writing style, I felt like I was reading a script for a play, not a book. The language is so simplified that I'm sure I saw sentences like "Logan exits the stage" somewhere along the way.

The sad bunch that proofread this book seemed to have trouble staying in focus as well, since the book is full of typos and snakes kiss instead of hiss and so on. I don't blame them, I had a hard time staying on track too.

Now, there is one more thing that I'd really like to point out.
You guys know how we all shit on the books that have no LGBTQ relationships at all and where heterosexuals are made, not the standard, but only people that exist in the said book/world?
Well, this one is the opposite. There are no heterosexual relationships mentioned (except if you are provided a partner for the reproduction). There is even a moment that I found really... I don't even know how to call it, but it goes like this:
Logan (to Zero): Have you ever had a boyfriend or a girlfriend?
So, who looks at a guy he doesn't really know and just supposes his sexual orientation. We don't do that, people!

Overall, the idea was good and all, but I didn't like the execution.
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Jan 05, 2021 AMHH rated it it was amazing

All Zero wants is what everyone in the 41st century wants-- to succeed and be remembered. By that metric, it’s a devastating loss when his teleportation device fails, and an added inconvenience when it turns out to have bent the fabric of time and deposited 21st century Logan in the middle of his quickly imploding life. Zero’s culture doesn’t have room for love (or animals, or unprocessed food) and he’s been conditioned against empathy from birth, but when his fellow-being Honey (friend also isn ...more

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Dec 28, 2020 Bea A. rated it really liked it

I don't really know where to start with this book, it was not what I expected.

You got Logan and Zero being the main characters with Honey close behind. Logan being pulled into Zero's world (and time, really), I get the confusion and hesitation at the beginning, but there was a lot of growth from both of them, and the love was.... Not sure how to put it into words. It was different since one of the men wasn't even familiar with what "Love" is. Can you imagine a world like that?
Zero was difficul ...more

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Dec 26, 2020 Susan Anne rated it really liked it

I‌ ‌received‌ ‌a‌ ‌copy‌ ‌of‌ ‌Love Logan by‌ Tilly Keyes via‌ ‌IndiGo‌ ‌Marketing‌ ‌&‌ ‌Design‌ ‌in‌ ‌exchange‌ ‌for‌ ‌an‌ ‌honest‌ ‌review.‌ I enjoy people out of their time stories and the author delivers an entertaining take on this trope. At first, I was unsure of English surviving two thousand years with few changes, but I gave in to it to follow the tale. Logan is a great character who feels himself a failure because he could not follow in his father’s footsteps. Zero, for me, took longer ...more

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Jan 05, 2021 Sid Blackwood rated it liked it

I received this book in exchange for an honest review.
All in all the book is enjoyable and a fun concept. Normally time travel transports one of the protagonists to the past but here Logan travels to the future. I like Zero and how much he grows from a selfish and shallow person to someone caring and in love. I wish that there had been a dual point of view though, because Logan is quite flat. He isn't fully fleshed out as a character and I don't really feel anything about him one way or the othe ...more

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Jan 02, 2021 Thieving Magpie rated it really liked it

What a book! What an asbolutely amazing, beautiful book.
At first, I was caught off-track. I had expected someone from our time to timetravel back in the past, not to the future. But once I've managed to deal with my first surprise, I can say this book was absolutely amazing. I loved the characters, the concept - I sincerely hope the future ends up looking different than that - but I loved that there were different animal-people-hybrids. They were written extremly interesting, especially - and I ...more

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Jan 01, 2021 Anna rated it really liked it

*I received this eARC for my honest review from NetGalley*

I enjoyed the book very much. The very slow and tender development of the love story corresponded exactly with the world view and the character of a person from the 41st century.
Zero's development and the changes that Logan awakened in him made my heart warm. ...more

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