K.Childs

Right now, I'm avoiding writing my novel.  I have been for a few days for a myriad of reasons- I've been suffering a horrific toothache that I couldn't address because I had no money, I've been depressed with the holiday blues because I had to spend what little money I had on drugs (prescriptions) to stay sane, which has left me in a precarious position for the next two weeks financially. Unwell, unhappy, worried about other things, I've spent the last four days focusing on escaping into something I don't have to build. But now the tooth is gone, and while I'm on a liquid diet, I feel so much better. However, I'm still procrastinating. Sometimes we fall off the 'write every day' bandwagon. Some weeks it's just not the right mood, the right words aren't on the tip of your tongue, the right phase of the celestial alignment. The secret during these times, is that it never will be. Life is a messy affair; you have to carve your own mood...

Cassandra Palmer series by Karen Chance. So my usual preamble about any series review; I dislike the time-travel trope in most media.  It is usually full of plot holes, inconsistencies and often characters making dumb decisions that they justify poorly. I want to like it, but authors use time-travel as a lazy device and leave dozens of plot hooks and conundrums hanging about my head days later. I like Doctor Who, but you can drive buses through the holes in the time-travel episodes’ plot. Essentially, I want to like time-travel, however movies and books with great popularity but ill-conceived finishes have ruined it for me. The stories without plot-holes usually end up as ‘looped time’ bubbles that finish and end with either the whole thing becoming final and never repeatable, or self-contained and ceasing to have meaning. There’s only so many times you can finish a book and think ‘so none of it mattered? No one lived, no one learned anything, nothing chan...