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Bezig met laden... Tumbleglassdoor Kate Constable
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Thirteen-year-old Rowan is helping her older sister Ash paint her bedroom when she discovers a mysterious ring that transports them both back in time to 1999. To a party being held in the very same house! While Ash dances, Rowan unwittingly disrupts the laws of time, and when she wakes up back in the present day, her sister is missing, and - even worse - everyone in their family seems to be forgetting she ever existed. With the help of her magical neighbour Verity, Rowan must find the courage to travel back through the history of the house. But can she find everything she needs to rescue Ash before her sister disappears forever? Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Trigger warnings: Disappearance of a person, military violence and war themes, World War Two, death of people
Score: Six out of ten.
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Tumbleglass by Kate Constable didn't live up to my expectations. I wanted to read this one for months but I put it off for a while until I picked it up again from a library shelf. The blurb seemed intriguing, even though it's the fourth time travel story I've read, but when I closed the final page, it was underwhelming.
It starts with Rowan and her sister Ash, presumably living typical lives in 2019 until Ash unintentionally travelled back to the same house, but in 1999. Sounds strange? It is. But that's not the only year Rowan time travels to, because when she meets a character named Verity, she explains her house is in an area called The Weakness, where time slips are possible. Verity gives a time travelling ring to Rowan so she has to find her sister before it's too late and she disappears for who knows how long.
Unfortunately, after the compelling opening, the pacing slows from there and the whole 'travelling through time' aspect gets repetitive and tedious to read, since Rowan can't go anywhere outside of the house. First, she travels to 1999, then 1972, during a civil rights movement for First Australians (not the one in America, though,) then the early 1940s, during World War Two (she didn't know much about that,) and finally, 1900. The characters aren't easy to connect or relate with, making me disengage with Tumbleglass. The writing style is enough to keep the plot going, since there's nothing too literary here, but the worldbuilding is underexplored, leaving behind a few unanswered questions, like where did the time travel ring come from? What are the possibilities? Can it travel forward and backward and to any point in time or are there limitations? Are there more abodes affected by The Weakness? The conclusion is satisfying as Rowan reunites with her sister, Ash, but that didn't take much effort when I think about it. Why can't Rowan go outside the house? There's no diversity here, a missed opportunity to explore how POC lived in different times. I wonder if Constable's other works are better.