Synopsis:
What would you sacrifice for more time?
Matthew Thwaite is running out of time. Passed over for promotion and drowning in debt, the museum curator finds a sixteenth-century clock that can slow the world to a crawl. He uses it to cheat chance and save his family.
But time keeps a ledger. Every stolen second exacts a toll. And Matthew is not the only one hunting the device.
Simeon Carillion, heir to the secretive Accelerants, engineers history through collapsed timelines. He believes the clock can end the killing. To get it, he will exploit every weakness, and take the one thing Matthew cannot replace.
To save his family, Matthew must enter a world where consciousness is fuel and reality is fragile. He must decide if the men who would burn the world to save it deserve a power no human should hold.
Some clocks tell time.
This one consumes it.
Review:
From time to time, I read a book that makes me wonder whether I’m just not smart enough to completely understand everything. 🙂
The premise sounded very promising. Matthew and his wife are not in the most financially stable situation. When he finds a very special clock that allows him to manipulate time, it offers him the possibility of using it for personal gain. Is his situation understandable? Yes.
Then we have an organization that is after this clock and will stop at nothing to get it.
I enjoyed the book as such and the moral dilemma it presented. Using the clock came with consequences, but where do you draw the line?
What I enjoyed most was the family aspect of it. The organization, its background, and its mode of operation were the parts that felt lacking to me. This was also the area where I didn’t fully understand everything that was mentioned, which could simply have been a me problem 🙂
🌙 Recension: The Sand Reckoner by N.T. Lyons
📚 Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
📅 Release Date: July 31, 2026
📗 available in various formats – included in Kindle Unlimited
📱 Read as: Kindle
💸 I received a free copy and am voluntarily leaving a review.
🗣️ Language: English
📆 Pages: 237
⭐️ 3/5
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