Closing Time - The Time Bubble 15
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Canberra, 2070: In the final, thrilling instalment of The Time Bubble series, the team faces their greatest peril yet. It’s been over half a century since teenagers Josh and Charlie first discovered the time portal in the tunnel that launched a lifetime of adventures. Now retired and living in his new country pad with his wife, Alice, Josh is forced to confront the reality of the team’s mortality, as the first of them passes on, unexpectedly. With his time travel and mind-transference technology, he stresses to the surviving members of the team that none of them needs to die. But events take an unexpected turn in the year 2070 when Earth's very existence is threatened. The world is shrinking, day by day, with entire countries and oceans disappearing as an unexplained anomaly consumes the planet. Yet apart from Josh and his fellow time travellers, the people seem oblivious to the threat. With time rapidly running out, Josh races to find a solution but is this a problem even he cannot fix?
Reviews
Finished this book the last in the 15book series and I have thoroughly enjoyed every one,so if you are looking for a good time travel series to get into look no further.with good characters and storyline,s, sometimes funny sometimes sad,from the first book to the last I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
So this is the fifteenth and final book in the Time Bubble series. It has an appropriate doom-laden atmosphere (albeit with some lighter touches at the end which could allow for further stories). It is the 2060s and our heroes are getting older in their own individual timelines, with a couple of them passing away, and one suffering from dementia, which I thought was well covered here. But a greater threat looms over not just the whole of our world and universe and indeed the whole multiverse. An anomaly creeps over the surface of the Earth from the mid-Pacific Ocean over the globe, obliterating everything in its path, but leaving the remaining population with no memory of the obliterated portions (which leads to some bizarre and blackly comedic consequences). Josh and Henry and the rest of the gang try various attempts to change past events to avert this catastrophe. I won’t give away spoilers but the resolution is enigmatic and gave rise to mixed emotions in me. This has been a wonderful series that I have loved over the last six years. I am pleased the author has another time travel series to pursue set in the 1980s.
I've read all 15 books in this series and not one of them has disappointed me. When the author said this was to be the last, I wondered how he would wrap it up and didn't anticipate this. That said it was great, there is the sense of closure but there's enough there at the end to make you think is it really the end and who knows what might happen in the future... or the past...Great characters and I shall miss them all. Who doesn't know a Richard Kent! - if it gets to screen, I want that part so will come out of acting retirement!!!
