Synopsis:
When you’re ready, come find me. I will keep you safe. -Hana
Descended from a Japanese dragon god, Yang Mina was born with the power to travel through time, and has spent her life training to take her place in the Descendants, a secret organization whose purpose is to protect the timeline. Then Mina’s world is uprooted when she moves to Seoul and finds a note from her sister–a sister who no one remembers, as if she had been erased. The only people who could have made her sister vanish so completely are part of the very agency that she’s been working so hard to join. So now Mina has a new mission, infiltrate the agency as quickly as possible to find her lost sister.
And, as if things weren’t complicated enough, a strikingly handsome rogue agent has determined that Mina is the only person who can help him put an end to the Descendants’ corruption. Placed in an impossible situation, Mina must decide how much she’s willing to risk to find the truth.
Review:
With a fun and timey-wimey adventure, Kylie Lee Baker created a Young Adult novel that perfectly encapsulates the question – Who Watches the Watchmen?
OK…so there’s this whole underground network of time-travelers who are descended from Korean and Japanese dragon gods. When the book starts, Mina is still a trainee, but is close to becoming a full-fledged agent – traveling to the past to alter events to preserve the true timeline. Part of her goal is to finally gain access to the inner circle to see if there is more information about the sister she can’t remember, but is sure existed at one point.
All of that is the background for what sets up to be an enemies to lovers romance that weaves its way through the book and through time. A rogue agent — Yejun — shows up, throwing a wrench into her plans and ideas for her future. Along the way, perhaps Yejun is a better path to her long-lost sister than her own organization of Descendants.
I had a lot of fun with I’ll Find You Where the Timeline Ends and the time travel loops that Mina and Yejun find themselves in. It seemed as I read the book that it was a bit messy and the time loops led to loopholes, but in the end, I do think that Baker managed to tie everything up fairly neatly.
In all the time travel shenanigans that happen throughout the novel, it’s clear that the descendants of these dragons have a TON of power. There’s a lot of “butterfly effect” happening with each of their trips to the past. So, to make sure that he and Mina can save the world, Yejun comes up with a multi-step plan, starting with the step of “Popularize candy corn in Korea.” Some of the small, minute things our characters do as very simple things to avalanche events to eventually stop a large-scale tragedy years later is almost hilarious in many ways. But, it shows just how much power these people have that they can dramatically alter past events and make people forget events and even people.
So when you have all the power in the world, who checks your power? The question is appropriate and timely for the society that we are increasingly seeing day to day, not only here in the United States, but in many other locations around the world.
As I worked my way through it, I definitely had tons of flashbacks to watching Marvel’s Loki, especially season 2, and the movie Your Name. If you love time travel and charming love stories, I recommend I’ll Find You Where the Timeline Ends. Baker did a great job and clearly had a lot of fun putting this fantasy young adult novel together.
Thank you to Feiwel & Friends for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.
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