Time's Divide (The Chronos Files Book 3)

Time travel readers will love this series. But don't start if you're easily confused by scene changes, time jumps and multiple characters with similar names. Seriously, this is the best time travel series I've read. Love it!

This is a wonderful story. I didn’t want it to end but feel totally satisfied with the end result. I will definitely read more books from this author. She created a time travel story that knows no boundaries. I’m not sure mankind is capable of dealing with time travel n a responsible way. I guess we’ll never know.

--------------------SPOILERS---------------------------This is going to be a difficult review to write. I absolutely loved the idea of the Chronos story. However, I was left disappointed and a bit upset with the ending of this book. I feel like I have been constantly let down with the history of Kiernan and Kate's romance. You start off reading the first book and when Kate touches the key, she sees Kiernan in a field (I believe she described him as looking upset) and then they are kissing. Then she sees him on the subway train and he kisses her while describing his touch as being somewhat electrifying. If I were Kate, I would be obsessed with finding out who he was and the details of our relationship. If a beautiful stranger kissed me and said that it wasn't our first kiss, I would want to know all about when our first kiss was. Therefore, I waited through the books 1.5, 2, 2.5, and 3 hoping to hear about that history. It never happens. Instead Trey is the love interest which I agree with other reviewers that it is a very immature and superficial. I could have done without Trey completely because their relationship never had any depth. I thought he was kind and sweet, but he was really lacking in vibrancy. Kiernan was by far the most interesting character, and for some reason that makes no sense to me, Kate was really mean to him. Why on earth was she always so mean to him? Especially after she spent the day with young Kiernan, who was by far the most adorable character. Then I just don't understand all the scenes where she did kiss Kiernan. It wasn't right to be constantly leading him on. I still don't understand why it ended the way that it did. I would have liked to have no Trey in the story, but I think other Kate would be interesting to keep. It could have been a love battle between old Kate, current Kate, and Kiernan. I also don't understand why Kiernan couldn't have stayed in the future like Simon did. If there would be another novella, say a 0.5, describing other Kate and Kiernan's relationship that covers their first kiss and the reason for why Kiernan was upset in that field, then I would have some closure and a new outlook on the series.

I started this series only a few months ago, and I fell in love with the story and the characters. I can be kind of a book snob at times, and maybe a little (or a lot) critical, but these characters and this story drew me I so far that when this book came out I had it from Audible as quick as possible. This final story was too intense to be listened to however and I ended up buying the ebook as well, unable to wait in suspense through everything that happened. I think the thing that bothered me, but that just proves Rysa Walker is a talented writer, was that not everything went back to the way it was. I honestly expected the story to end up with Kate being the only one that remembered what had happened with no Cyrus International etc. And I really liked Kiernan (I didn't fully trust Trey until the end), and kind of wanted her to end up with him... Hm. To be honest I think this story could have been told so many ways with so many endings and subplots that I never would have been totally satisfied with one. The time traveling got incredibly confusing in this book - I zoned out whenever it was "explained". But for the most part I just went along with it. One side question. Who was the neighbor in the van? That was never explained (or if it was I missed it). And who were Simon's parents? I think that was explained at some point but I don't remember that either. Anyway it doesn't really matter. I love this series, and I'm so glad I found it. The historical information was fascinating. I wonder how much of it was accurate/real. Oh, one last thing. Usually I hate teenage girl heroines because they have these super whiny moments that make me want to rip my hair out, but Kate's moments of teenage angst were never overdone or unreasonable. I liked that about her. She had to cope and make tough decisions and she was irritable and tired and sad all the time, sure, but she didn't seem spoiled or childish ever to me. Thank god for that...or should I say Cyrus? Hehe. Good stuff, Rysa. Can't wait to see what you come out with now.

I somehow ordered Book 1 thinking the subject matter was following another series I was reading. What a surprise for me. I've jumped right in and read this Rysa Walker series pretty quickly. I'm in my 70's, I see this series as being more for older teens, young adults and up but this Old Lady took a side trip from her usual and with Mrs. Walker's characters traveled the world and then some. I have to say I very much like how this book (and Series of 3 Books) were ended. So often books are without end, lots of author extra for endings here but the writers attachment to each is showing.

A good story and it brings the three book series to a satisfactory conclusion. However, with the exception of the last chapter, it is really hard work ploughing through all the time changes and characters appearing at different ages in their life. The story would probably have worked just as well with considerably less superfluous detail.(Personally I'm not a fan of books where sentences are started with conjunctions but this doesn't have an adverse effect on the story.)

Really enjoyed this series of books. The characters were all engaging and you were kept wondering what was going to happen and how it was all going to end up. What was really good was that each book could be read on its own with sets of events that also felt completed by the end of the book which you don't get in many series now. There are many series where the entire series could have been one book and this series is definitely not one of those. Will definitely be reading more by this author!

I said of the first two books how surprisingly easy it was to follow what is inevitably a complicated plot, a sign of careful and clever planning and writing. Well, I struggled a bit with this third book. Not because of the subject so much, that is still handled very cleverly, but with some of the shallower characters. There seems to be a lot of referring to characters who aren't "there" by name, and I had trouble keeping track of who some of them were, or if I did know who they were, which "version" of them we were talking about. A few times I had no clue who a person was and had to flick back through the book to see when they were introduced and exactly where they fitted in.Overall though, a highly enjoyable trilogy if you like time travel stories, and I absolutely adore them.

A little confused, and there are so many bits where there are arguable clashes, but this is a fantasy story about time travel of goodness sake, so how much accuracy can you ask for?! :-) The historical facts are right and the characters in all times seem on the money, and what a story! Rip roaring along, and so well defined, I really feel like I know the characters in person, as real people. Or at least I feel like I could travel tot he USA and meet them, they are so real and well phrased. I loved it, read it in one sitting crossing the Atlantic on the way back from hols, couldn't put it down!

Chronos 3.0, a masterful end to a brilliant series. The struggle between darkness and light in this series has been like a border war, much watching of the enemy, scouting, raids and forays, occasional exchanges of artillery fire, some resultant alterations in the surroundings, some blood on the floor, ours, theirs, much innocent. The Cyrists held most of the cards, like the Axis in 1941, and played them as badly and for the same reasons, too much internecine strife, seeking sole empire. Some reviewers were disappointed there was no final denouement between ourKate and Saul in his temporal bunker, but life rarely follows art, and a grubby death is much more likely than falling in honourable single combat when the reaper calls. That which was lost, was found, fought again, and lived happily ever after in the past, but deserved a bit more of a cuddle from the unbanded than was given, however. The rebranded aunt came over from the dark side, though her past self provided the vital stable point co-ordinates, unknowing, from which the skein was untangled. The fifth column were watched and winnowed by the enemy, but proved just enough in number and resolution to aid avert the Culling and hammer the final stake into the heart of evil. Difficult compromises were made at the end, some points were switched back but there was no final return of the train of fate to its original track. Not all our band of heroes survived, and K still has Fred pecking remorselessly, unless I missed something [only had time to read this twice so far...].Rysa writes with humour and perfect characterisation. With a tight band of actors from her imagination she has created a truly memorable universe. Thank God for small town childhoods.....