{"id":888,"date":"2017-11-09T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=888"},"modified":"2017-10-22T22:59:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T04:59:23","slug":"book-time-of-destruction-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/09\/book-time-of-destruction-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Time of Destruction (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TimeTime of Destruction<\/u><\/strong>
\nYear: 2015
\nAuthor: John C. Meyer
\nLength: 386 pages<\/p>\n

***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM THE AUTHOR***<\/p>\n

Having written a time-travel novel myself, I can understand how difficult continuity can be to ensure the story makes sense. In Time of Destruction<\/em>, the continuity of events is certainly there, but it lacks in so many other areas as to make it almost unreadable. While the continuity of the timeline was well thought out, the continuity of details was not. From limiting the \u201ctime bubble\u201d to 30 minutes of air, then allowing an antagonist to exist in the space for a full hour, to inconsistencies in the spelling of minor characters\u2019 names (even on the same page), Time of Destruction<\/em> has a good story buried deep within a mess of simple writing errata.<\/p>\n

Right from the start, the format of the book highlights the author\u2019s lack of quality control. From the right-hand pages having the page number in the gutter margin to the right-aligned text to inconsistent tabs, spacing, and section breaks, these visual clues immediately gave me the sense that this work was rushed out the door. Once I started reading, I found the context to be poorly written. Aside from dialogue that was consistently the same (\u201cBlah blah,\u201d character 1 SAID<\/strong>. \u201cBlah blah,\u201d SAID<\/strong> character 2, \u201cblergle bah blah.\u201d \u201cBlah blah,\u201d SAID<\/strong> character 1. Ad infinitum<\/em>, even in two-person dialogue), on every single page, I could probably find a dozen proofreading errors, including missing punctuation, an almost obscene avoidance of hyphenation, and homophone abuse. In a book that\u2019s nearly 400 pages long, these errors add up to over 4,500 moments where I was distracted from the story.<\/p>\n

As for the story itself, I did appreciate some of the accuracies in how long it would take to rebuild society after an apocalyptic event. However, there were a few plotlines which were unnecessary (like the events on Earth immediately following the titular \u201ctime of destruction\u201d), and some of the characters acted in irrational ways to get the result the author wanted (the romantic pairing of the time travelers seemed forced and unnatural from the start). Furthermore, the author\u2019s vision of the near future (2085) is practically the present we live in right now, with regular space travel being the only<\/em> advancement in the next 68 years. This book might have worked better as two separate books, covering the destruction of Earth and the time-travel aspect to prevent it, respectively. As it is right now, the ending doesn\u2019t make sense, and there\u2019s too much \u201cfiller\u201d to justify a book of this length.<\/p>\n

A neat idea, riddled with errors most High School students could fix, I give Time of Destruction<\/em> 2.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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Time of Destruction Year: 2015 Author: John C. Meyer Length: 386 pages ***THIS BOOK WAS RECEIVED FROM THE AUTHOR*** Having written a time-travel novel myself, I can understand how difficult continuity can be to ensure the story makes sense. In Time of Destruction, the continuity of events is certainly there, but it lacks in so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,54],"tags":[33,55,885,868,991,992,8,337,990,674],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-0-stars","category-book","tag-33","tag-book","tag-editing","tag-future","tag-john-c-meyer","tag-proofreading","tag-review","tag-sci-fi","tag-time-of-destruction","tag-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}