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Twist of Fate #2
Irreversible
When her best friend Katherine is stolen by a brilliantly twisted man who, driven by hate and revenge, forces her to live a manufactured life, L. Roxanne Zaborovsky enlists the help of a time-anomaly specialist who is the only one that can save Katherine from the vagaries of time. Original.
321 pages, Paperback
First published September 30, 2008
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Liz Maverick
32 books370 followersBestselling, award-winning author Liz Maverick is a novelist, adventurer and odd jobs specialist whose contract assignments have taken her from driving trucks in Antarctica to working behind the scenes on reality TV shows in Hollywood.
Liz is known for writing out-of-the-box romance novels with fast-paced, unique plots and lots of kick-butt action. Her previous works include Cosmopolitan Magazine Book Club Pick What a Girl Wants, PRISM/Daphne finalist The Shadow Runners, Golden Leaf winner Crimson Rogue, and Waldenbooks/B&N bestseller Crimson City, the first book in the multi-author continuity series she created.
Liz and her books have been featured on Fox's Geraldo at Large and in USA Today, Cosmopolitan Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Toronto Star, and more.
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Liz is known for writing out-of-the-box romance novels with fast-paced, unique plots and lots of kick-butt action. Her previous works include Cosmopolitan Magazine Book Club Pick What a Girl Wants, PRISM/Daphne finalist The Shadow Runners, Golden Leaf winner Crimson Rogue, and Waldenbooks/B&N bestseller Crimson City, the first book in the multi-author continuity series she created.
Liz and her books have been featured on Fox's Geraldo at Large and in USA Today, Cosmopolitan Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Toronto Star, and more.
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November 13, 2008
Reviewed for queuemyreview.com; book release Oct08
“Irreversible” is a new book by Liz Maverick released under Dorchester Publishing’s new SHOMI line. SHOMI is “an imaginative, new line of edgy, speculative [romantic] fiction destined to break all the rules”. Fans of the Matrix and far out romantic scifi will be thrilled with this new line. I enjoyed the read, even when it was a little too technical for me.
Kitty is stuck, literally, in a time loop. She’s being used as a guinea pig by an unscrupulous genius. The biggest problem is that she doesn’t even realize that she’s living the same week, the most ‘perfect’ week of her life, over and over and over again. Luckily for her, she does have some very good friends who are ‘time wire’ experts. When their efforts to free her are unsuccessful, they call in a time anomaly expert, Q, to assist.
Q just doesn’t play well with others in a one-on-one situation. He has abandonment issues and knows it, but no one is more aware than him that people can be taken away in a nanosecond of time—never to return. When normal rescue methods prove futile, Q realizes that he will have to insert himself into Kitty’s present time and circle in order to save her. And the more time he spends with her, the more he realizes that saving Kitty will be the most important thing he ever does as it will save him from a life lived alone.
I consider myself a fairly ‘geeky’ type. I’m not a rocket scientist, but I do enjoy new technology toys. So let me just say that if you are a science- or technophobe, you will probably not enjoy this book. It’s weighted very heavily toward the science in science fiction and the romance and sex portion is a much lighter piece of the plot. Having said all that, I still enjoyed reading it. There were a few times when I got confused by all the ‘time wire’ talk and it became apparent to me that my knowledge of the time-space continuum will need updating if I want to keep reading SHOMI books!
It’s easy to see that this line is likely geared toward a younger audience who grew up with technology and science. That doesn’t mean the older crowd can’t enjoy it, it would just be less likely. In many ways, this type of writing is very much a breath of fresh air (or maybe a burst of compressed air?) in that it’s still in its infancy. So for all you closet geeks out there, give a SHOMI book a try and see if you like it. I’m a fan of Liz Maverick’s writing and I do believe that was a large part of why I liked “Irreversible”. The only thing I’d like to see change is the emphasis on the romance, but that’s just me!
“Irreversible” is a new book by Liz Maverick released under Dorchester Publishing’s new SHOMI line. SHOMI is “an imaginative, new line of edgy, speculative [romantic] fiction destined to break all the rules”. Fans of the Matrix and far out romantic scifi will be thrilled with this new line. I enjoyed the read, even when it was a little too technical for me.
Kitty is stuck, literally, in a time loop. She’s being used as a guinea pig by an unscrupulous genius. The biggest problem is that she doesn’t even realize that she’s living the same week, the most ‘perfect’ week of her life, over and over and over again. Luckily for her, she does have some very good friends who are ‘time wire’ experts. When their efforts to free her are unsuccessful, they call in a time anomaly expert, Q, to assist.
Q just doesn’t play well with others in a one-on-one situation. He has abandonment issues and knows it, but no one is more aware than him that people can be taken away in a nanosecond of time—never to return. When normal rescue methods prove futile, Q realizes that he will have to insert himself into Kitty’s present time and circle in order to save her. And the more time he spends with her, the more he realizes that saving Kitty will be the most important thing he ever does as it will save him from a life lived alone.
I consider myself a fairly ‘geeky’ type. I’m not a rocket scientist, but I do enjoy new technology toys. So let me just say that if you are a science- or technophobe, you will probably not enjoy this book. It’s weighted very heavily toward the science in science fiction and the romance and sex portion is a much lighter piece of the plot. Having said all that, I still enjoyed reading it. There were a few times when I got confused by all the ‘time wire’ talk and it became apparent to me that my knowledge of the time-space continuum will need updating if I want to keep reading SHOMI books!
It’s easy to see that this line is likely geared toward a younger audience who grew up with technology and science. That doesn’t mean the older crowd can’t enjoy it, it would just be less likely. In many ways, this type of writing is very much a breath of fresh air (or maybe a burst of compressed air?) in that it’s still in its infancy. So for all you closet geeks out there, give a SHOMI book a try and see if you like it. I’m a fan of Liz Maverick’s writing and I do believe that was a large part of why I liked “Irreversible”. The only thing I’d like to see change is the emphasis on the romance, but that’s just me!
May 21, 2020
I've come to realize that when I read a SHOMI book I either like it a lot or I don't care for it at all. That said, IRREVERSIBLE falls into the second category. Usually I am careful to read a book in sequence. I failed to check to see if this book was in a series and started to read. I soon figured out that there was a prior book, WIRED, and I stopped Irreversible to read Wired's reviews. I decided I was fine without it and continued on.
I caught on quickly that Wired was Mason and Roxy's story and their entanglement with Leonardo Kaysar, a man who wanted to rule the future. Kaysar now dominates Kitty, Roxy's best friend, and has her living in a time loop without the knowledge of her past. Mason, Roxy and their coworkers are trying their best to save her but barely making a dent. Enter 'Q', a coworker's brother and a specialist with time problems.
It was suppose to be another futuristic romance but the technical side of the book felt scattered. Q's and Kitty's romance lacked believability until the end and, most of all, it was boring. Ms. Maverick took on quite a project when she decided to write a series on the future and time. Unfortunately, she didn't do a very good job. The ending left the team to continue so I assume there will be a third book but I won't be reading it.
I caught on quickly that Wired was Mason and Roxy's story and their entanglement with Leonardo Kaysar, a man who wanted to rule the future. Kaysar now dominates Kitty, Roxy's best friend, and has her living in a time loop without the knowledge of her past. Mason, Roxy and their coworkers are trying their best to save her but barely making a dent. Enter 'Q', a coworker's brother and a specialist with time problems.
It was suppose to be another futuristic romance but the technical side of the book felt scattered. Q's and Kitty's romance lacked believability until the end and, most of all, it was boring. Ms. Maverick took on quite a project when she decided to write a series on the future and time. Unfortunately, she didn't do a very good job. The ending left the team to continue so I assume there will be a third book but I won't be reading it.
November 3, 2012
This book's cover did not say it was part of a series, but the dialogue suggests that it is. That said, the only part dependent on the previous book is the reasoning behind the antipathy between the heroes and the villains. It stands very well alone, with the exception of certain devices, such as "smarties" which are never explained, and the reader has to figure out what they are as the story unfolds. This may have been intentional, but it distracted me from the storyline.
However - the story, which is a time-travel story dealing with a familiar theme, how to cross time without totally making everything disappear, does not deal with the working details. Using a crowbar to splinter time? Even one with wires in it is just too unrealistic. Leaving that aside, I thought the rescue of someone who didn't know she needed rescuing was a great theme.
Katherine, or Kitty to her real friends, is stuck in a time warp, living the same week over and over, and every time she starts to realize something is wrong, the villains "fix" things so that her worldview resets itself to their desireed reality.
Her real friends desperately try to save her, and while at it, stop their nemesis, the man who controls her and has her living the same life over and over. Since she doesn't know she is looping through the same events, she is happy, and resists rescue. A very interesting theme.
The time travel was good, the looping and crossing through time was also, but the mechanics of how to do so was weird. I liked that it revisited the idea that messing with time could impact you or your loved ones in weird ways, causing black holes in your memory.
I also liked the synopsis of why the villain might be holding Kitty (revenge/research/desire) but thought the mechanics definitely needed work. Also - what was with time appearing as tarry muddy goo?
Overall, I liked the story, just not the how-to of changing time and disrupting the sequence of it as put together just for Kitty.
However - the story, which is a time-travel story dealing with a familiar theme, how to cross time without totally making everything disappear, does not deal with the working details. Using a crowbar to splinter time? Even one with wires in it is just too unrealistic. Leaving that aside, I thought the rescue of someone who didn't know she needed rescuing was a great theme.
Katherine, or Kitty to her real friends, is stuck in a time warp, living the same week over and over, and every time she starts to realize something is wrong, the villains "fix" things so that her worldview resets itself to their desireed reality.
Her real friends desperately try to save her, and while at it, stop their nemesis, the man who controls her and has her living the same life over and over. Since she doesn't know she is looping through the same events, she is happy, and resists rescue. A very interesting theme.
The time travel was good, the looping and crossing through time was also, but the mechanics of how to do so was weird. I liked that it revisited the idea that messing with time could impact you or your loved ones in weird ways, causing black holes in your memory.
I also liked the synopsis of why the villain might be holding Kitty (revenge/research/desire) but thought the mechanics definitely needed work. Also - what was with time appearing as tarry muddy goo?
Overall, I liked the story, just not the how-to of changing time and disrupting the sequence of it as put together just for Kitty.
October 31, 2012
A time travel story set in the past and the present and the future where engineers have learned how to cross wires leading from different temporal times and places. And the competing philosophies about how much to mess with time because of how it might rearrange what is or has been or will be. Our heroes are trying to save a friend who is being used in an experiment with time--she's in a continuous loop repeating one week over and over again. The idea is interesting for scifi fans but the working details are too unrealistic. Using bazookas and crow bars and even poking a finger into a time matrix to break through levels of being was too far-fetched. Drowning in sludgy mud that represents chaos and time displacement was weird. It didn't work for me. I would have liked more logic and plausibility. Science fiction and fantasy are plausible and realistic within their unreal framework--they conform to the rules of that universe and are believable if you accept the what-ifs. Perhaps if I had read the first book in the series I would have liked it better--perhaps the time manipulations ideas were worked out better then.
April 21, 2014
First, you need to know that this book is the sequel to Liz Maverick's earlier Shomi title, WIRED. Events and relationships are mentioned from the first book that are glossed over only briefly in this new book, so occasionally the reader might get lost while reading. On the plus side, for anyone who had read WIRED and needed to know more, here you go! IRREVERSIBLE does not disappoint or let down.
The story is sometimes more complex then I am used to in a romance. With Katherine 'Kitty' Gibbs 'perfect week' constantly reset back to the first day (Monday), and only Kitty none the wiser, the other people in the farce are hard put to keep things as they should be. The lengths needed to keep the world perfect are sometimes hilariously ludicrous, but Kitty doesn't question these things.
Leo was eerily creepy and his manner of revenge and 'love' were psychotic. Several times throughout the book I found myself hoping that Q or Kitty would find a conveniently placed rifle to end his mad scheme, but fortunately he gets as he deserves.
Overall the mild case of déjà vu that repeated events and reactions caused was well worth enduring to finish the book.
The story is sometimes more complex then I am used to in a romance. With Katherine 'Kitty' Gibbs 'perfect week' constantly reset back to the first day (Monday), and only Kitty none the wiser, the other people in the farce are hard put to keep things as they should be. The lengths needed to keep the world perfect are sometimes hilariously ludicrous, but Kitty doesn't question these things.
Leo was eerily creepy and his manner of revenge and 'love' were psychotic. Several times throughout the book I found myself hoping that Q or Kitty would find a conveniently placed rifle to end his mad scheme, but fortunately he gets as he deserves.
Overall the mild case of déjà vu that repeated events and reactions caused was well worth enduring to finish the book.
September 1, 2010
This book is futuristic/time-travel romance and is a sequel to the book "Wired" by the same author. They were both published under the SHOMI line by Dorchester Pub a few years back. The SHOMI line all has crazy cartoon/anime-esque covers that for me were a bit of a turn-off so most of them have been sitting on my shelf for years. However, as I've slowly picked them up and read them, I've been very surprised! A lot of them are ★★★★★ quality! Wired was that way, but sadly, Irreversible falls pretty far behind.
The book picks up the story of L. Roxanne Zaborovsky and her boyfriend, Mason as they're trying to find and save Roxy's best-friend, Kitty. Kitty's timeline got messed up in the first book. For awhile she was dead, but her murdered went into her past, saved her, and now has her plugged into a "time-loop" where she repeats the same week of her life over and over again. Think of a week-long, Groundhog Day. Yes, it's a clever story, but I had problems getting into it and just never really came to like the characters the way I did in the first book
The book picks up the story of L. Roxanne Zaborovsky and her boyfriend, Mason as they're trying to find and save Roxy's best-friend, Kitty. Kitty's timeline got messed up in the first book. For awhile she was dead, but her murdered went into her past, saved her, and now has her plugged into a "time-loop" where she repeats the same week of her life over and over again. Think of a week-long, Groundhog Day. Yes, it's a clever story, but I had problems getting into it and just never really came to like the characters the way I did in the first book
December 10, 2010
If you didn't completely understand straight-line wire-crossing in Wired, then Irreversible will do your head in. It deals with time anomalies; namely Katherine Gibbs who's stuck in a week-long whilst her fiancé, co-workers, and "friends" pretend whatever Leonardo Kaysar wants them to.
An old pal's time hacker group is trying to extract Kitty from the loop, but their intern unintentionally screws things up massively. And Vesper is a pain in the arse for most of the book, until she shares a moment with Kaysar and some newspaper and they seem an unlikely but cute couple. But we never hear from her again, and I need closure, damn it! Meanwhile, things suck personally for group leader Louise, who's feeling a bit lonely, but she goes about it in a totally non-emo way that doesn't grate.
By the way, layers of time appear to be comprised of black ooze and white vapour. Those layers are bewildering, so give up thinking, and just enjoy the ride.
An old pal's time hacker group is trying to extract Kitty from the loop, but their intern unintentionally screws things up massively. And Vesper is a pain in the arse for most of the book, until she shares a moment with Kaysar and some newspaper and they seem an unlikely but cute couple. But we never hear from her again, and I need closure, damn it! Meanwhile, things suck personally for group leader Louise, who's feeling a bit lonely, but she goes about it in a totally non-emo way that doesn't grate.
By the way, layers of time appear to be comprised of black ooze and white vapour. Those layers are bewildering, so give up thinking, and just enjoy the ride.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 2, 2011
I enjoyed this sci fi romance? suspense? Not sure what category to put it in! Anyway, the concept was intriguing & she was able to explain all the time travel kooky-ness in a way that was believable & also didn't make my eyes cross. I thought the 'jail' Kitty was in was very spooky, gothic even--and of course rather Matrix-like--it was deplorable what had happened to her & you really wanted to see her 'break free' with Q's help. The way they interacted was well written as was Kitty's slow 'awakening'. The end was a bit hard for me to grasp--all the time travel stuff again...but the book ended with the appropriate sense of completion & satisfaction...though I sense that we are not done with these characters yet!
Vespa is particularly intriguing. Is there more of her story? Wonder if she'll be in the next book...
A good read.
Vespa is particularly intriguing. Is there more of her story? Wonder if she'll be in the next book...
A good read.
June 28, 2011
I was disappointed that I couldn't find Wired to read before this since it introduces many of the characters. However, I didn't feel that I had to read it because Irreversible told me everything I needed to know. While I did accurately predict certain plot elements before they happened, I liked this book very much. Q is great - a lot of fun to read about. Kitty is well... Kitty. I didn't know her in Wired so I had no basis for comparison, but for most of the book she isn't really the Kitty everyone knows and loves. Her realizations about her life and her growing ties to Q are very transformative and Q's own reactions to Kitty are equally beautiful and transformative. Despite the futuristic background, this book was really all about Kitty and Q coming together.
January 7, 2009
This book should have been interesting & yet it wasn't.
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