JaymeO's Reviews > The Paradox Hotel

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 finally lost it.

Meanwhile, a summit of trillionaires has been assembled to take bids on privatizing the Paradox Hotel due to its inability to turn a profit. The master clock malfunctions, the security camera is hacked, ghosts haunt the hotel, and dinosaurs roam the hallways. Oh, and a hit man is attempting to murder the trillionaires!

Can January save the day?

I loved Rob Hart’s The Warehouse with its completely original premise that kept me on my toes. The Paradox Hotel felt like it would be a perfect fit for me because I enjoy time travel, unreliable narrators, and locked room mysteries. However, this book was very difficult to follow due to its large cast of underdeveloped characters, too many plot points, and confusing timeline.

I really enjoyed January’s snarky attitude and adorable googly-eyed AI sidekick, Ruby. I applaud Hart for including Lesbian and Nonbinary characters as well as for making a woman responsible for inventing time travel. This book might appeal to true science fiction afficionados, but my layman’s brain couldn’t wrap my head around it.

3/5 stars

Expected publication 2/22/22

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group and Ballantine Books for the ARC of The Paradox Hotel in exchange for an honest review.