Red, White, and the Blues: Chronos Origins, Book 2

Another great book from this author. Love all their books!

Don't miss this series! If you like time travel tales, I recommend reading this entire series, preferably in order. Enjoy!

Rysa Walker’s forthcoming book Red, White and the Blues, releasing on January 19, 2021, is the second installment in her CHRONOS Origins series. CHRONOS Origins is a continuation of Rysa Walker’s best selling and award winning series CHRONOS.In book one of the series, Now, Then and Everywhen, we are introduced to two time traveling historians – Madison Grace and Tyson Reyes. We find out that Madison is a descendant of Kate and Trey from the original CHRONOS series. A massive time shift occurs while Tyson is in 1965. Madison and Tyson’s paths eventually cross and they have to keep further events from occurring and changing the past they know.Red, White and the Blues continues the narrative of the consequences from Now, Then and Everywhen. Told from several POV, after the off world team executes their three moves, Hilter takes Europe, Pearl Harbor does not happen and CHRONOS doesn’t exist! It is up to Madison, Tyson with the help of some friends to choose, research and make their 3 moves in an effort to reset history and restore the original timeline to the best of their abilities.While this book is long, it is rich with detail of historical events. If you are a history buff or just enjoy reading about history, you should read this series! I enjoy the continued development of the characters and their story lines. While, I have read the original series, enough backstory is provided for you to follow the storyline without having read the original series.I am an avid reader of Rysa Walker’s work and her latest novel does not disappoint. It is full of twists and turns, mystery, suspense, revisiting characters from the original series and so much more! Rysa’s story telling style pulls you in and takes you down a road where you do not want to put the book down! If you enjoy reading alternate history, time travel, science fiction and mystery, then I suggest you read the CHRONOS Origins series.

This was a good book for sure. However, I will admit it was not as much of a sitting on the edge of my seat thriller I enjoy the most.Time travel books can definitely screw with your mind, and this was no different in that regard. I also find the laws in this universe a bit plot holey, but whatever. I can enjoy the book at face value and call it a day. If you like time travel books and saving the world mysteries this is a pretty good one.

A bit turgid with so many characters popping in and out but still worth reading. Rysa writes well but she has taken on a difficult task with her plot.

Rysa Walker is a great author. I found the earlier books in the Chronos and had read them before. I was waiting for this to come out and wasn't disappointed. I am a fan of her approach to time travel as well as the character development. If you haven't read any of the other books at all, you might be a bit confused at first, but don't give up. It fits together nicely as you progress. I would recommend reading the other books in the series first, though.Let me explain why. Ms. Walker does an outstanding job of developing the characters throughout her books. Not spoiler - it is about time travel, so some of the characters in the series change when the timeline changes. I really enjoyed observing the impact of small changes to both history and character development as the story progresses.I am always impressed at the historical details in each story. The mood, environment and vibe of the various periods really come to life. As I looked up some of the real life incidents, I was amazed at how much of the descriptions were actually accurate. I ended up reading in depth about them after-the-fact to better understand what really happened.Just a good series!

I read this second book in the CHRONOS Origins series a while after reading the first and had a difficult time remembering the plot and characters from the first book by that time. Perhaps I would have liked Red, White, and the Blues better if I’d been able to read the series back to back. I felt like there wasn’t much character development/investment in the second book, and the interspersed newspaper clippings from the fictional Daily Intrepid interrupted more than aided the flow of the plot. I did enjoy the author’s use of historical figures like Billie Holiday and Albert Einstein and the brief glimpse of Clio’s former relationship, but they weren’t enough to make me love this book. Maybe I just prefer plots centered on people rather than on grand political or religious themes.

I'm new to Walker's work; the only other book I've read was the first in this series. Once I figured out who belonged to which timeline, I thoroughly enjoyed the story. Walker's characters are pretty believable and I found their interactions with actual historical figures convincing enough. There's just enough actual history to make the "what-if" scenarios plausible--if time travel was real. It's good clean fun.

This is an exciting story. It's well written and uses an extensive volcabulary. Having each chapter based on one character's perception works really well and the interaction between the main characters adds an additional dimension.However, there are long passages that contribute nothing to the overall plot; most of these are of a political nature and are extremely tedious. They also focus on American politics and history so are of even less interest to those readers who do not live in the USA.The ending is also rather weak as it is ambiguous at best so rather unsatisfying. Perhaps this is deliberate to allow for a sequel but it would have been nice to have some positive outcomes for the characters' relationships.

This is the sequel to the prequel series of the Chronos Books. I read and reviewed Now, Then and Every When last September, and loved the book so much that I pre-ordered the next in the Chronos Origins series. It was finally finished and delivered to my Kindle, so I just had to read it, even though it's not part of my A-Z challenge.This book is as good as the first!I really don't want to say too much about this book, for fear of giving away spoilers, but it is mind-bending, and incredibly well-written. If you haven't read the first book, read that first, just so you can jump right into this one without too much hesitancy. I have not yet read any of the Chronos Files series, but have added them to my wishlist, as I know once I start reading them, I won't be able to put them down.

Rysa mixes the bigger world shaking situations with the smaller personal effects on individual people.While the science involved is complex it is kept straight forward enough not to lose the reader.

My child actually brought this along with afew other books but I actually thoroughly enjoyed it

Did not order it