Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space.
This book is set in a dystopian future, which somehow feels like it should be a utopia if only people could just find the right amendments!
This is the theme that runs through the whole story: the interconnectedness of events, which means that for every action there may be one foreseen consequence, but multitudes of unforeseen ones, untold other changes rippling outwards, good and bad. The morality issues are fully explored but remain shaded in hues of grey; is it selfish to refuse to use your allotted amendments to improve or save a loved one? What if you make a positive change to your own life, but as a direct or indirect result the new world you have created means death for hundreds of others? These are complex questions and Hannah Lynn frames them but leaves the answers to her readers to interpret as they wish.
The novel follows Emelia as she grapples with such dilemmas from the date that she receives her right to two amendments to her life choices. The process of this is unclear but appears to involve a reset back to a specified date along with an envelope containing a short message from the 'previous self' that requested the amendment. However, unlike Groundhog Day you can't revisit the same event to keep refining your results. Once you have amended an event once, you have to live with the consequences...unless you can persuade someone else to use their amendment as you wish, of course.
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