As you can see, I was totally caught up in Danny’s character and definitely wanted to follow him around and see what he could accomplish in this book. Luckily, he has a stalwart friend in Cassie, a lass who has been his friend since childhood. Few people are understanding, including his mom. Lastly, he has finally come out of the closet, now that being gay is no longer a hanging offense. Also, the lad survived a nasty accident himself and he’s suffering from PTSD.
#Timekeeper how to#
His dad has been absent for the past 3 years trapped in the stopped city of Malden and no one has figured out how to free the city yet. He’s the youngest mechanic to graduate from the training program.
Danny Hart enters the picture and he has plenty going on in his life. There’s also this slightly mystical ability to feel the flow of time coupled with intuition of knowing just what the clock needs to run smoothly. Then we learn more about the clock mechanics, their rigorous training, and how it’s more than just sprogs and bolts. Through out the book, we get little snippets of this mythology – never enough to bore and they always intrigued me. First, I was sucked in by the mythos of Chronos and how time was shattered but brought back under control by the clock towers and their spirits. This book was so much more than I was expecting. Colton seems equally intrigued by Danny and the two share a spark of romance that may or may not go anywhere. Danny begins to suspect sabotage even as he learns an unsettling yet still intriguing truth about the clock tower – it does indeed have a clock spirit. Meanwhile, he has been assigned temporarily to the clock tower in the little town of Enfield where small things keep going wrong. Danny Hart is a time mechanic like his father and he hopes to one day free his father and citizens of a Stopped town where a clock tower broke 3 years ago. Set in a Victorian England, the clock towers keep time from fracturing and the Timekeepers keep the clocks ticking along smoothly. This is the stunning first novel in a new trilogy by debut author Tara Sim.
#Timekeeper series#
Though the boys are drawn together by their loneliness, Danny knows falling in love with a clock spirit is forbidden and means risking everything he's fought to achieve.īut when a series of bombings at nearby towers threaten to Stop more cities, Danny must race to prevent Enfield from becoming the next target, or he'll lose not only his father but the boy he loves - forever. Danny soon discovers why: He is the tower's clock spirit, a mythical being that oversees Enfield's time. And so they assign him to Enfield, a town where the tower seems to be forever plagued with problems.ĭanny's new apprentice both annoys and intrigues him, and though the boy is eager to work, he maintains a secretive distance. Though Danny is a prodigy who can repair not only clockwork but the very fabric of time, his fixation with staging a rescue is quickly becoming a concern to his superiors. It's a truth that 17-year-old clock mechanic Danny Hart knows all too well his father has been trapped in a Stopped town east of London for three years. In an alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, a damaged clock can fracture time - and a destroyed one can stop it completely.