**3.5-stars rounded up**January Cole is head of security for the Paradox Hotel, a rest stop and playground for wealthy time travelers. Think of it as like a Four Seasons at an airport.January has worked as a detective in the time travel space for years, traveling back to various time periods thwarting people from changing past, and therefore, future events.Because of all the travel, January's brain is starting to 'skip', a very serious repercussion of the job. It's a major health concern and it'...

I received a free advance copy of this from NetGalley for review.Not that long ago, if I read a story in which time travel was possible but instead of it being strictly regulated and only utilized for things like historical research that it was used just for tourism for rich assholes, I’d have said that doesn’t seem very plausible. However, these days I’d say that’s absolutely what would happen if we had time travel because the wealthy will obviously get their way even as it dooms us all.So in t...

Well, I hate to call a DNF this early in the year, but 2022 is the year for good books and good vibes only. I was positive going into this one, as it was highly anticipated for me because the premise sounded amazing! But I should’ve know that trying to include elements of sci-fi, murder mystery & time travel all packed into one book just sounded too good to be true.The first chapter was very disorienting & the ones to follow were nothing short of chaotic. I was struggling to get a grasp on the w...

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Time Travel/MysteryI loved the premise of a hotel for the uber rich who are preparing to take flights into the past. Welcome to the Paradox Hotel - The hotel is going private because it is costing more than it is earning. Trillionares are preparing to bid.Visiting the past through Timeport costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. You may choose to go back to see the first showing of Hamlet, visit ancient Egypt, a favorite battle, the Triassic period, the Renaissance, and more.Janua...

I liked the premise of this book about a hotel that operates time travel trips for tourists. However, I couldn’t get past my extreme dislike of the house detective January. Do you know what would be original, making the protagonist an even tempered, well adjusted, polite person, rather than a tough-talking asshole who evades the rules and lies to her employer. Don’t look for that in this book. January is a walking cliché. I didn’t like “The Warehouse” either, so I guess I should just avoid this

4.5 starsAn absorbing, fascinating mess, The Paradox Hotel packs in so many ideas, and simply can't decide which one is the dominating thread. Is it a time travel sci-fi? A political/social espionage? A friendship story circling around the hotel staff? or a personal, intimate journey of grief? The answer is this novel is all of the above (and more)—if you're willing to be open-minded, and simply let the book throws its unruly wildness at you, you'll come out of it appreciating its emotional dept...

My last reviews of 2021 is coming up! I’m still heartbroken that we lost Betty White as I’m writing this review! I thank her for being our friend! And here comes my review:Westworld meets Fantasy Island with Jurassic Park vibes could be definitely proper cure for mediocre sci-if fan for me! Think about a hotel designed for Musk, Bezos, Arnault, Gates to help them time travel: going back and forth between any time zone to take care of their top secret businesses. When I read about space travels

It’s the year 2072 and January Cole is a smart aleck Time Enforcement Agent and head of security at the Paradox Hotel. She has been working for the U.S. time travel organization for six years and has become unstuck. This negative side effect of frequent time travel is impairing her mental state. How can she continue preventing individuals from changing the timeline when she keeps finding herself in past and future moments? When she sees a dead body suspended in time, she wonders if she has final...

Update 2/22/22: Reposting my review to celebrate that today is publication day!Update: I had a hard time writing this review. The Paradox Hotel is a complex story, and it was difficult to organize my thoughts about it. So after posting my review, I scrolled through some other reviews and found one by someone who said they abandoned the book after reading only 5% because the novel has a main character who’s a lesbian and another character who is non-binary. How amazingly sad that in 2021 people c...

Let me be blunt. I am not a fan of science fiction. But I was a big fan of Rob Hart’s The Warehouse, so decided to take another chance on him. The book seems incredibly relevant, as today’s billionaires are all clambering to get into space. In this story, they’re clambering to time travel back to the past.The book takes place in a hotel for time travelers. The chief of security, January Cole, is losing it. She is what’s known as Unstuck. She moves around in time, sliding forward and backwards fo...

The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart is a science fiction fantasy that does have an air of mystery and a thrilling side to the story. The story in The Paradox Hotel is one that involves time travel jumping, has an unreliable narrator and a complex plot.January Cole has spent a lot of her career going through time and fixing problems that have arisen to keep a balance. Now January is head of security at the Paradox hotel because she is “unstuck” and has to battle slips of the timeline. Due to January’s

Well, this one is different! I am a great lover of time travel fiction and jumped at the chance to read Rob Hart's latest novel which takes place about 50 years in the future. The US government now runs a time travel program for wealthy vacationers who want to go back in time to experience history first hand. One cardinal rule though is to respect the time line. Nothing about the past can be changed--so no going back with plans to stop Hitler, for instance. That would disrupt the time/space cont...

This review was originally posted on Books of My HeartReview copy was received from NetGalley. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.3.5 heartsThe Paradox Hotel is a strange place.  It is a place people go to travel in time and see different events in history.  With that comes some different challenges for head of Security, January Cole.  People are people and they try to sometimes bring things back with them they shouldn't.  Like raptor eggs because who doesn'...

The Paradox Hotel by Rob HartParadox Hotel detective, January Cole. is Unstuck. Because she worked as security for the U.S. government's time travel organization for years, traveling to various time periods to thwart people who try to alter the present and future by changing past events, her mental state is degrading. With increasing frequency, January is finding herself in past and future moments and she is unable to control when these "skips" happen. She won't admit to her boss that she is in

3.25 time travel starsI don’t read much science fiction, but occasionally I venture in with an intriguing premise. In this case, we have the hotel where ultra-wealthy guests stay before they go on a time travel adventure. Sometimes the guests arrive in period costume, but right now they are all mad because trips are canceled, and some very odd events are happening at the hotel.We meet January, she’s the head of security at the hotel, and she used to be a Travel Enforcement Agent, making sure tha...

I think this is a case of I must have expected more out of this than I might have, otherwise. I loved the Warehouse and I've been glutting on a stream of great, quirky time travel novels by Jodi Taylor (St. Mary's, Time Police) that deal with institutional absurdities, politics, chaos while giving us a light humorous touch.The Paradox Hotel is something like that. Selling joy-rides to the past for the rich and powerful, having a badass security-woman suffering from a PTSD-like time-ghost hauntin...

Like Doug Adams’ Restaurant at the Edge of the Universe, Hart takes his gorgeous Hotel and sticks it at the edge if time, specifically two miles from the timeport where the ultrawealthy dress in period garb and head off to their favorite places in history. For the most part, they make minor ripples, but for those who make (often purposefully) more of an impact, there are Time Agents who go back and fix things. It’s kind of like the original Westworld where the rich can indulge their fantasies an...

4.25/5I have to say, I meant to read The Warehouse when it came out but never got around to it, and now that I've read The Paradox Hotel I am definitely going to have to stop putting that off! I loved the super complex, multilayered story, and Rob Hart's writing sucked me in so completely that I basically listened to the whole thing in one sitting. Science fiction is a genre that I really enjoy but don't read much of, and I am always a little leery of the story potentially going over my head. I

I was so hyped for this one! I’m not huge into this genre, but sometimes I get lucky and find a hidden gem! This was one of them! The concept of time travel is so cool and this story takes a unique twist on it.January Cole is the head of security for the elegant Paradox Hotel. At the Paradox Hotel the mega rich are given the opportunity to time travel. Sounds pretty cool. The timestream starts acting strange, a with a blizzard rolling in, the hotel to goes into a sort of lockdown.To add fuel to

I guess I'll land on 3.5 stars... This is such a hard one to rate, because for premise, writing quality, and characters, I could happily give this something in the B+ to A range. But for plot execution, this is more like a C+, because there are so many threads that don't really come together as successfully as I hoped. By the end, it felt kind of jumbled but still somewhat satisfying, which creates a headscratcher in terms of how to review! In general, I appreciate an ambitious project even if i...