I blasted through this book in a single day! A word of advice: go into Mike Chen's work looking for "sci-fi with feelings" and let go of expectations around world-building--his specialty is really getting into the relationships of his characters, delving into the impact of sci-fi elements on their lives and hearts, and he does it with such compassion. The emotional resonance of this book practically vibrated off the page. I cried several times in a beautiful catharsis. 

I'm amazed I enjoyed this as much as I did, because I usually get really annoyed with all the "timey-wimey" paradox tropes of most time travel fiction. But this was so grounded in the people, in what it all meant to their human connections, that I didn't really mind. 

I discovered Mike Chen through the Worldbuilding for Masochists podcast, episode 34, The Reluctant Worldbuilder, and hearing Chen describe his writing priorities and strategies for reverse-engineering his worlds may have made this book more enjoyable for me. I can't wait to read more!

BRB, gonna go put all of Mike Chen's books on my library hold list!!

I really liked the ending of this book, and Penny and Miranda were both great. That being said, I found it a little strange that Penny, who was pretty young

was so eager to accept an adult woman as her "daughter"

. The fact that Kin has already raised an entire teenage daughter and was suddenly like 15 years older than Penny experience-wise - I'm not sure how a relationship survives that. But I suppose things are different in the future.

Sadly, the Hungarian translation was full of unnatural phrases translated literally from English that were distracting, but I tried to judge the book regardless of that.