Out of Time by Lynn Abbey - 2.5 stars (rounded up to 3)

[Jen]

The concepts in this story are complex and fascinating but it sure takes a long time to get to them. This was the slowest slow burn I've read in a while, and it took me at least three stops and starts over the past few years to even get to pushing through on it. The book was written in 2000 but still felt really dated even in the "modern day" portions of the story.

Alternately bored or irritated by our main character, Emma didn't draw me into caring much about her disrupted world, even as the action started to step up a bit, and it was easy to set this book aside for days or even weeks at a time without picking it up again. The last 100 pages finally churned up the interest enough to get through it and is what gives the half star to the rating---without that help, I might still be trying to get this one done.

The book ends with some things unresolved, and I don't care enough to want to resolve them.