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Wb W _1989 — ** spoiler alert ** I gave this book three stars, not because it wasn't great, but because I began to have a seriously problem with the unraveling and turning of the plotline. Personal taste, totally subjective, but again, I am a logically-driven person. If it's too far away from anything resembling logic (this was) then I have trouble thoroughly enjoying it. I sincerely hope Mangum will write something a *little* more mainstream next. I hope she stays in fantasy as she is fabulous, but this book, well, I felt like the first 3/4 of the setting was in the same room in the Apothecary shop. It felt so stagnant, even though plenty happened. I think the whole story was extremely ambitious for a first-time writer and I applaud her efforts. The other thing that put a huge damper on my ability to enjoy this book, was the way she resolved it in the end. I'm sorry, but I just couldn't appreciate the "all-magical mysterious time power" of Abby's that magically fixed everything in the end. There are about 100 other ways that I could have thought to fix the story that didn't involve inventing something pinch-hit-like at the end. To name a few: 1. DO SOMETHING TO ZO'S PAST. If he can kill Dante back in time, why can't Abby do the same to Zo's past? If not she herself, have DANTE do it!? So silly. This was the #1 obvious choice on fixing the timeline. But whatever. 2. PREVENT ZO GOING THROUGH THE DOOR THE SECOND TIME. This was still never EVER logically explained away. Why it was better to have him GO through the door. I mean, come on, if you're going to write a time book, what is the point of a time travel story if you CAN'T go back in time and change anything. Change Dante getting blinded, Change V getting killed by Zo... THERE'S SO MUCH to fix and change that she never even threw that in as a possibility. Yes they went back in time, but they changed things by accident and as the opportunity arose--not due to intention. So.. inevitably, she painted her plot into a corner and the only way out was Abby's magical powers. Uh huh. I can't express enough my disappointment. I really wish she would have explained better how one determines WHEN in time one travels when going through the door. It was implied that this was done through the Roman Numeral tattoos on the wrists. But Abby never had those tattoos. Perhaps that was why she went to the beginning of when the door was built, but she didn't exactly, she only went as far back as when Orlando RETURNED through the door--how he did that we never found out either. In the end, I found this a very engaging, interesting read, but the 2nd two books were so irritating to me that I don't intend to read them again. I think I will quite enjoy reading Book 1 again now that I know the entire story. Extremely creative no doubt, but time travel suggests logical puzzles that CAN'T be solved. I should've known better. Oh yeah.. and the title was totally silly. Has absolutely nothing to do with the mass of the book. A better title would've been something like "Fixing the River" or "Murky River" or "The Unraveling Bank" or "Closing the Loop."