For All Time

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Summary: Noo! This can't be how it ends ....
Review: I lovedd this TIME series. I followed it faithfully, and then I finally stumbled upon "For All Time." I was sooo excitedd, finally an ending for Annie & Strat. This book went a bit slow, I found myself skipping over chapters that weren't Annie and Strat. And the book kept you in suspense, Annie and Strat weren't together for a LOT of the book. The reincarnated Strat was really cool though! Like a lot of the other readers said, I agree Cooney could have ended the series a lot better, and I think she could write more books in the Series [i doubt she will]. i was disappointed in this book.... but read it just to satsify your craving about annie & strat !!

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Summary: Good plot idea, I LOVED the other three books, but......
Review: I must say that the first three books I rated as five stars and I would rate them higher if I possibly could!!! I LOVED this series when I thought it was just a trilogy. Then I found the fourth book and I was literally screaming in delight and anticipation of what would happen to Annie and Strat. But, as I got towards the ending of the book I was wondering, when are they going to have real adventures TOGETHER??? I don't know what all these people are thinking when they give "For All Time" five stars. To me, nothing seemed to happen and for once in the entire series, their families don't seem to play such an important role.

I loved the idea though, don't get me wrong! I love the concept of traveling back to ancient Egypt, I love that Strat found that very important sandal (later you find out how important) and I love the aspect of the Stratton descendant in modern day. But, it is just an outline!!! There is hardly any dialogue and Annie and Strat are just together for a very tiny, short time before they're ripped apart again. I wanted to see more action, more adventures with them together. The jumping from Renifer to Strat to Annie to Camilla to Dr. Lightner to Pankh to Mr. Stratton to Lockwood to Katie and back and forth proves to break the plot up way too much. It seems that the story line focuses on the new characters' Renifer and Camille's fate more than it does on our old favorites Annie and Strat. And really, we don't even hear anything more about Devonny (except that she has a couple kids) or Tod or what is going to happen to poor Florinda, we don't even know for sure what happens to Douglass either. There are only three short chapters sort of dedicated to Annie and Strat together. I wanted them to make choices again, to travel together, to try and help their families and the ones they loved. There weren't any complications or mysteries this time involving Annie and Strat, no heartwrenching decisions or unfortunate separations. Annie doesn't even get to travel back and forth between her time and Strat's!!! Plus, Strat's and Annie's families were so important in the other books, this time it's just Strat's father. And his father just gives up so easily! He's such a pushover in this book that it's hardly worth the resolution.

The other books all revolved around the Stratton mansion, their families and there was a LOT more dialogue and complications and people with evil motives. I understand that they mansion was out of the question this time. But, in the other books I could always picture everything that Cooney described and she went into so much detail that I felt like I knew each character intimately. This time, she utterly failed to develop her plot and just gave us a brief overview with no real problems or solutions (except Annie as a sacrifice) and no real love affair or quality time of Annie and Strat together. Oh yeah, and what happened to Devonny's mother and why didn't Mr. Stratton get more thoroughly punished for locking her up? We don't find anything out about how he got out of his predicament or how Hugh-David still managed to marry Devonny.

I will say that I liked the very end once Annie gets back to her own time. I'm wondering if Lockwood is Strat reincarnated or Strat coming into the future and can't remember? I hope so! His watch was filled with sand and he had a dream about Egypt so it's possible. But, other than that, I just couldn't seem to get comfortable with all the different characters and all the different Times and I'm utterly disappointed that Annie and Strat weren't even the real focus of the book. Basically, this book had to be a lot longer than it was to get the full story that I was hoping for. Some of the characters should have been in another novel. The book is bigger than the rest but seems to contain a lot less!!! Go ahead and read it, it has enough of a plot to keep it interesting and it is part of the FANTASTIC Time Quartet that I love SO much. But, I just wish that the Strattons and Lockwoods had been more involved and that so many new people hadn't been thrown in. I'm not a fan of Cooney's horror books but I really do hope that she writes more books like this Both Sides of Time series. Anyone from age 11 to 111 would really enjoy these novels!

Rating:
Summary: Good plot idea, I LOVED the other three books, but......
Review: I must say that the first three books I rated as five stars and I would rate them higher if I possibly could!!! I LOVED this series when I thought it was just a trilogy. Then I found the fourth book and I was literally screaming in delight and anticipation of what would happen to Annie and Strat. But, as I got towards the ending of the book I was wondering, when are they going to have real adventures TOGETHER??? I don't know what all these people are thinking when they give "For All Time" five stars. To me, nothing seemed to happen and for once in the entire series, their families don't seem to play such an important role.

I loved the idea though, don't get me wrong! I love the concept of traveling back to ancient Egypt, I love that Strat found that very important sandal (later you find out how important) and I love the aspect of the Stratton descendant in modern day. But, it is just an outline!!! There is hardly any dialogue and Annie and Strat are just together for a very tiny, short time before they're ripped apart again. I wanted to see more action, more adventures with them together. The jumping from Renifer to Strat to Annie to Camilla to Dr. Lightner to Pankh to Mr. Stratton to Lockwood to Katie and back and forth proves to break the plot up way too much. It seems that the story line focuses on the new characters' Renifer and Camille's fate more than it does on our old favorites Annie and Strat. And really, we don't even hear anything more about Devonny (except that she has a couple kids) or Tod or what is going to happen to poor Florinda, we don't even know for sure what happens to Douglass either. There are only three short chapters sort of dedicated to Annie and Strat together. I wanted them to make choices again, to travel together, to try and help their families and the ones they loved. There weren't any complications or mysteries this time involving Annie and Strat, no heartwrenching decisions or unfortunate separations. Annie doesn't even get to travel back and forth between her time and Strat's!!! Plus, Strat's and Annie's families were so important in the other books, this time it's just Strat's father. And his father just gives up so easily! He's such a pushover in this book that it's hardly worth the resolution.

The other books all revolved around the Stratton mansion, their families and there was a LOT more dialogue and complications and people with evil motives. I understand that they mansion was out of the question this time. But, in the other books I could always picture everything that Cooney described and she went into so much detail that I felt like I knew each character intimately. This time, she utterly failed to develop her plot and just gave us a brief overview with no real problems or solutions (except Annie as a sacrifice) and no real love affair or quality time of Annie and Strat together. Oh yeah, and what happened to Devonny's mother and why didn't Mr. Stratton get more thoroughly punished for locking here up? We don't find anything out about how he got out of his predicament or how Hugh-David still managed to marry Devonny.

I will say that I liked the very end once Annie gets back to her own time. But, other than that, I just couldn't seem to get comfortable with all the different characters and all the different Times and I'm utterly disappointed that Annie and Strat weren't even the real focus of the book. Basically, this book had to be a lot longer than it was to get the full story that I was hoping for. The book is bigger than the rest but seems to contain a lot less!!! Go ahead and read it, but this book doesn't solve anything for us any better than the ending of Out of Time did.

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Summary: I can't believe the series ended this way...
Review: i remember being devoted to Cooney's Time series some years ago, and religiously tracked down the first 3 books. A few weeks back, my friend came across the fourth book, For All Time, and i was ecstatic, for i wasn't aware of its existence. The book was fun and engaging, however, the ending was rushed and an extreme disappointment. For years i was committed to the Time series, and to see it end the way it did made me feel as though i have been wasting my time. I won't give away the ending, however, i fear that devoted Time readers will be left feeling as though not reading the series would have been more agreeable.

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Summary: superb
Review: I started this series thinking it would be something to occupy me while my life was utterly dull, but as I finished the first novel in the series, I became psycho. The story of Annie and Strat was so compelling that I dropped everything and read. I forced people to take me to buy the rest of the books and I finished the series in less than one work week. Simply divine was the story. The way Strat was so in love with her and her with him but time proving a barrier; I simply melt at the thought. 'For All Time' was my favorite of the series. I just made such a riveting conclusion that I dreamt about this book forever. The ending was questionable, if you misenterpret it, it seems completely tragic, but if you are in sightful, the ending creates tears of joy. All the obstacles that Strat and Annie have to face are so surreal that you have to read the page over again to make sure you read correctly. That is why I enjoyed the series and specifically 'For All Time'.

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Summary: The Last in the Time Travel Series?
Review: I thought the book was pretty good. But really not totally awesome because of the ending. Even though I sort of hated Strat. But otherwise the book was good enough to read. Make sure you read the other books before this one, you sort of need to. I really do hope this was not the last one in the time travel series but it is looking like it is... the ending would be a let down then. : )

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Summary: The End
Review: I thought this book was great! In fact I love Egypt and plan to go there some day and dig for mummys. I love how Strat and Annie finally get back toghter. I thought the end was horrible. It just ended. I turned the page expecting more. The book was great, but the ending was way too heartbreaking.

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Summary: Hmm...
Review: I thought this was a very good story. I really enjoyed the Eygptian and Camilla plots, but I don't think they should have been in the Time series. It would have made a really good seperate book. The reason I say this is because, I missed the old characters in the time series. It seemed like they were just written in there as a side note. Annie and Strat weren't together enough and I missed Devonny. Itwould have been better if it focused on them more. Also, I didn't understand the ending. Was a reincarnated Strat really supposed to take the place of the original? They weren't the same person and I thought it was disapointing that Annnie settled for this second version.

Rating:
Summary: its good... read it.
Review: its a very,very good book, but of course,as always, it is always better when u read all of the series, which consists of both sides of time, prisoner of time, for all time, and out of time. all of the books are very good, and you will fall in love with annie lockwood, devonny stratton, ted lockwood, and hiram stratton jr(strat), learn to hate hiram stratton Sr, and everybody who tries to come between annie and strat, who even though they live exactly 100 years apart, seem to be a match made in heaven. i cant possible explain how much i enjoyed the books, but i can say, that it is impossible to imagine how much u just might like them yourself!!

Rating:
Summary: its good... read it.
Review: its a very,very good book, but of course,as always, it is always better when u read all of the series, which consists of both sides of time, prisoner of time, for all time, and out of time. all of the books are very good, and you will fall in love with annie lockwood, devonny stratton, ted lockwood, and hiram stratton jr(strat), learn to hate hiram stratton Sr, and everybody who tries to come between annie and strat, who even though they live exactly 100 years apart, seem to be a match made in heaven. i cant possible explain how much i enjoyed the books, but i can say, that it is impossible to imagine how much u just might like them yourself!!