Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for sharing this book. All opinions are my own. Perfect for fans of science fiction who enjoy fantastical world building and a fast moving, adventurous plot. Highly enjoyable read with a satisfying plot and an ending that leaves you ready for book 2!

There are some really interesting ideas in this science fiction novel about cloning some of history’s greats and bringing them up as American teenagers, including the crypt and time experiments, evolution and more but it eventually gets lost in a strange combination of adventure novel and cartoonish geopolitics that had me rolling my eyes. Ultimately disappointing after a strong start.

Ok, here goes. This was a really weird reading experience. And there was a lot going on. The move adaptation is going to be great! I stayed confused throughout.. At one point, I almost gave up.. I stuck with it, and the second half was worth the effort and struggle. The Twin Paradox was definitely a major science thriller, and it ended up being a fun read. I would have enjoyed it more if it had been my genre.

Not as good as I had hoped it would be. Too many different genres in one story line. Made it hard to focus on.

This book had very good potential but for me it was way to convoluted. Too much science fiction topics thrown in to make it a great book.

This was a fascinating book that I found quite enjoyable. If you like science fiction like Blake Crouch’s “Dark Matter” there’s a good chance you will like “The Twin Paradox.” The thing I enjoyed was how he quite boldly brought together all the sciences— from quantum physics and engineering to genetics and biochemistry — into one story. I knocked off a star because at times I felt it was a bit over the top and because I felt the ending was a bit rushed, but that could be that this a duology with a sequel coming out soon. But overall it’s well researched and I loved the characters. Plus the overall philosophical themes he explores like “nature over nurture” and “free will vs determinism” gave me a lot to think. Anyway, I‘ll be picking up the next book which is a recommendation in and of itself.

What would happen if people like Issac Newton, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr, or maybe Hitler, or Genghis Khan were born today? What if a corporation found a way to clone the genius part? What if they were brought up knowing they were very smart and had special teachers to guide them in their studies but were never told any thing else about where they came from? All of this and more is explored in The Twin Paradox.

This was a awesome book and makes you think as science is catching up in these areas faster and faster. It is also and interesting case for nature versus nurture. I really liked this book and wish I had the chance the review book two. The characters are wonderful, being what each is, and the story is really good. This book should definitely be on top of your TBR pile.

THE TWIN PARADOX by Charles Wachter started out really good, I was getting Michael Crichton vibes throughout until the sixty-three percent mark. I’m not going to delve into spoilerville, but I will say how the narrative plays out, including the introduction of certain characters, at this point, didn’t work for me.

DNF – 63%

Thank you, NetGalley and Trevaney Bay Publishing, for providing me with an ebook of THE TWIN PARADOX in the request of an honest review.

This book starts as a somewhat typical thriller - a facility is in trouble. New people are brought in to fix the problem. Of course, there is a saboteur there to cause problems. We watch things unravel and the characters fight to survive. That's just the idea behind the story. There is so much more involved. Russian scientists, corporate greed, conspiracies, clones, cannibals... Honestly, I think there really is too much going on in this book. I'd rather have seen more depth than the surface level that is presented. The idea of being a clone of a famous/influential person is intriguing, but this was just too convoluted. The potential is there but this book doesn't quite live up to it. I think a good editing would have helped it tremendously.

I was really excited to read this book. After reading the premise, I was intrigued and looked forward to the obviously unique story. Unfortunately, this book just wasn’t for me. The idea was strange and seemed not very well thought out. This could be a great book for many people, but it sadly wasn’t the case for me. Thanks for the chance to read and review this book!

I had high hopes for this book; it sounded really interesting from the premise. Unfortunately the writing is subpar. The teenagers don't sound like teenagers, and the bad guys sound too stereotypical. Ultimately I got about 36% into this book and decided it's just bad. DNF.

What happens when you throw clones, time, creatures, and the government? You get The Twin Paradox.

The Twin Paradox starts out in the past. An old thief goes around collecting DNA from some of history's famous people. You fast forward to the present. Airplanes are falling out of the sky in a certain stretch of land in Texas, random weird, mutated sea creatures keep randomly showing up in that same area, and there's a group of teens that find out who they really are. The five teens are in a special program at their high school. The 5 of them have been in the same class their whole time during school. It was their senior year, and their graduation was moved up. During their graduation, they find out that they're clones of Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Leonardo Da Vinci, Issac Newton, and Catherine the Great.

They're brought to a secret place in Texas where the government and Gene-E Corp (the company that cloned the teens) have not only learned to clone people, they've also found out how to manipulate time. The teens learn even more information about the secret place throughout the rest of the novel.

The idea behind The Twin Paradox is definitely very interesting. I've not taken a lot of sciencey courses and really only know basics, so that part of the story was completely foreign to me. The author put in a lot of subplots so the story is very convoluted.

I did enjoy the Jurassic Park-like atmosphere with the mutated animals, plants, people, etc. There is definitely some creativity there. The scene with the cannibals and the original Issac, but intense and such a good scene. I was so intrigued but also grossed out.

I'm interested to see if this turns into a series as I'd love to know what happens to the teens.

ARC provided by Netgalley for an honest review.

this is one of the craziest plots i've ever read! it starts out with a y.a. feel then goes completely high-tech-science-gone-mad; there was a lot of fun timey-wimey stuff.

definitely a page turner.

The definition of paradox is when something sounds absurd but proves to be true or conversely something sounds true but proves to be absurd. Which one is this book? Charles Wachter mixes genre with a kitchen master 5000 blender and pours it out in this book. You will find a little scifi, a little horror, a little humor, many examples of young adult meets literary fiction and it's strange, but it all fits together to make a pretty darn good book. Reading the book synopsis, I thought of Rocky & Bullwinkle vs Boris & Natasha. Did he pull a rabbit out of his hat? Yeah, he did.
The US government has been running a secret labratory (Oh my, no!) that is cloning famous persons from history. This is their solution to the loss of brain power they see. We will just hatch another Einstein or Newton and they can solve our problems. Well, the Russians had the same idea, but they are cloning super villians.....yes Boris & Natasha. Throw in experimenting on how to control time, speed it up, slow it down, bend it to whatever we need to succeed. I know this all sounds crazy, but its actually a very good read. Definitely a concept I havent seen blended together before but you will definitely have several people in your reading circle that will have to read this. Be sure to share.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for this eARC in exchange for an honest review. I wasn’t sure what to expect when going into this story, but I finished this book with the only thought in my head being, ‘what the fuck did I just read?”
The Twin Paradox follows a group of teenagers that are graduated from their honors program in high school early. The day of their graduation, they find out that they are clones of famous intellectuals like Albert Einstein, Catherine the Great, Martin Luther King Jr., and Leonardo Da Vinci to name a few. They’re invited to do an internship with Gene-E Corp (the company that created them). But this internship comes with few details. When they arrive and start to tour the facility, the teens realize that there’s more too Gene-E Corp than they could have imagined.
This brings me to my biggest issue with this book: the science. There is so much science, math, and physics in this story and most, if not all, of it went right over my head. I had to just skim read and pretend like I knew what any of it meant. I think the science could have been simplified even just a little bit and that would have made my reading experience a little better.
Other than that, I actually liked this book. It surprised me. There was darkness to the story that I wasn’t expecting from the synopsis. But there was also some excellent suspense and mystery that kept the pace of the story moving forward. I also liked all of the characters. And the ones I didn’t like, seemed to be intentionally unlikable. I think the teens were really interesting to follow and acted like teenagers despite being clones of some of the greatest minds in history.
Overall, I liked this book…I think? It really surprised me in a lot of ways. I will definitely be reading the sequel when it comes out next year.

I'm not really sure where to start with this book. The beginning captured my attention, it opens with upon Isaac Newton's death and a jeweler paying to have a molar extracted. Flash forward to the year 1975, in the USSR where a butcher, Arkady, who has an adopted six-year-old daughter, Catherine, uses his profession as a ruse. He was recruited as a collector of human remains and his daughter, a helper.

Then the story changes to a deep-sea diver, Jimmy Jones, who was a welder for an oil platform following in his father's footsteps. When Jimmy hears something and witnesses a mass of sea creatures that defy logic and leave Jimmy speechless. The oil rig sank trapping Jimmy.

A group of teens, who attend a special school have been bumped up to graduate early with an internship with Gene-E Corp. Alastair would like to do his own thing. At the graduation, the group of teens, learn what is special about each of them.

Jimmy, after being rescued, decides it's best not to discuss what he witnessed under the ocean depths if he wants to continue working. Jimmy's father, Cayce, who is a conspiracy theorist believes his son. It's not long after that they both are approached by Paul Summers, from the government with an offer they can't refuse.

Things are going as planned, Paul is trying to keep Jimmy from talking and plug some holes along the way. The teens and Jimmy's paths cross, where Jimmy takes them on a tour into what looks like a Jurassic Park adventure.

I enjoyed the majority of the story but did get lost in places in part because there was a lot going on to keep track of. I found the time travel concept intriguing and after the autism spectrum was mentioned in regard to Isaac Newton, I looked it up and learned something I hadn't known.

I received an ARC from NetGalley via Trevaney Bay and I have voluntarily reviewed this book.

Upon reading the premise of this novel, I was very excited to begin reading and was eager to learn which direction the plot would take. And indeed, the book was an absolute page turner as the plot built during the first half. The concept and themes presented in The Twin Paradox are both intriguing and refreshing. However, I found the execution to be lacking in both sophistication and depth. Ultimately, the first entry in this new sci-fi series is simply mediocre entertainment that leaves the reader with a sense of disappointment from its unrealized potential.

By about the 50% mark, I started to notice several oddities with the author's writing. What I originally thought may be an odd "writing style" revealed itself to be poor writing and, possibly, shallow ideas. Sections of chapters almost felt poorly written in comparison to other sections. In these poorer sections, the author's concepts of events, passages, or attempts at expressing a thought were not well connected either to the previous or following sections, and sometimes within the same section. These disconnected sections felt like I was reading a draft full of brainstormed ideas. Abrupt jumps between ideas and paragraphs made me feel like I was missing information, as if I had accidentally skipped a sentence or paragraph.

From the 50% point onwards, the plot just went off-the-rails with over-the-top situations. It was also around this point that I realized this book was far less "serious" than I thought it would be. Characters behaved very oddly, situations were often too unrealistic, and attempts at humor were jammed in throughout. I found myself confused and questioning for which tone the author was aiming. At times, the writing comes off as a serious attempt at science fiction. But then, the tone will abruptly shift to a YA-esque feel along with goofy, over-the-top ridiculousness.

Another issue for me was the inclusion of overt sexualization and objectification of an adult female character. The sexual nature of scenes with this character felt "icky" as well as pointless. The character did serve in plot momentum, but a sexual factor was completely unnecessary.

I'll be skipping the upcoming entries in this series.

Really confusing start… I struggled with all the many different things going on in this book to start. That said, I really ended up enjoying this one once I got into it and solid ending.

Thanks to NetGalley and the published for a review copy!

So confusing and all over the place I couldn’t get through it. The description and reviews made this book sound fantastic. Comparing it to “The Martian” and “Ready Player One” made me think I would love it since I loved them. This was nothing like either of those stories. Hard to follow, too out there for me.

This book is so far over the top it nearly burns up on re-entry, It's got evil corporations, human cloning, time variables, wormholes, international intrigue, supervillians, evolution gone wild, dodgy physics, a plucky bunch of kids who clean it all up, and a bunch of other things I've already forgotten. As the immortal Joe Bob Briggs used to say: there's a lot of plot getting in the way of the story.

But, if you completely suspend your disbelief, don't think about any of it too much, and go with the flow, it's a fun adventure story. The characters are YA-level complicated, 2 1/2 dimensional at best. The writing is crisp, and the author mostly does a good job of sketching the scientific background stuff without bogging down.

All in all, think of the book as comparable to a summer blockbuster movie: invest a few hours, enjoy the thrills, cheer for the good guys, hiss at the bad guys, and watch a bunch of stuff get blown up.