For All Time

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Summary: The Time has come......
Review: "For All Time" was not good, from the standpoint of it being the last addition to the "Time" quartet. On it's own, it is an OK story. The original "Time" characters didn't evolve much - they went through the same exact emotions as in the previous stories: "I wish I hadn't left you....," "You need to go back to your own Time.....," "I wish you hadn't left.....," etc. At first, I thought Camilla was the main character and then I though Renifer was the main character. Then, I began to wonder *who* was the main character? The historical elements were interesting, but at times confusing. How could the present be the future, if the past hadn't happened that way yet? That's what this book felt like at times. I felt that Cooney didn't really know how to end the series, and had to make "soap opera" plots. The reincarnated Strat was an interesting addition and I wish there had been more of him in the story. There is plenty of room for another addition to this series, and if there is, I hope there will be more of Strat reincarnated. I suppose I recommend.

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Summary: Disappointing End to Good Series
Review: After a several-year wait, I found For All Time and was happy that another Time book had been written.However, the story disappointed hugely. My biggest beef with the story was Annie going back to ancient Egypt. The point? I didn't see one. And really, I didn't need another oppressed girl 'finding herself' as Renifer did. In fact, the entire Renifer story was unnecessary and frankly, a bit boring.

I truly, truly hated the end, as it went completely out of sync with Annie's character in the other three novels. She has this life-altering experience and shrugs her shoulders over it? There's no way anyone could go through what she went through and be that blase. I got the feeling Ms. Cooney painted her characters into a corner and didn't feel like fleshing out a plausible ending.

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Summary: A Review for For All Time
Review: For All Time by Caroline B. Cooney is a great book for sixth through ninth graders. The reason is because it tells the story through the eyes of the different characters. This makes the story a little confusing and might need to be the reread to understand what is going on.
The book begins with Annie's parents and brother going away and her wanting to go to an Egyptian museum. Then, the story goes to Strat caring dead bodies to an expedition. Next, the story focuses Renifer on a boat ride. The story continues to introduce one character after another. Also instead of focusing and on Annie and Strat and their family, the story seems to settle on the new characters more. We are told almost nothing about what happened during Annie's and Strat's separation.
But going on with Renifer, she learns her father and fianc? are grave robbers in the time of the pharaohs. After her father and fianc? find that she knows, they give her and Annie as human sacrifices. Strat comes and saves Annie but Renifer wants to stay. Annie and Strat go back to 1899 to Egyptian expedition only to get into more trouble. Annie and Strat and Renifer all have something in common that I think the author intended. The all have courage and believe in themselves and their God and in time. That is how they overcame the obstacles of death, prison, and their time difference. For All Time by Caroline Cooney is great book to the time travel quartet.

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Summary: Read it to finish the series...
Review: I have read all the Time books beginning with Both Sides of Time (my favorite book of the series!!). This book was a bit too slow in some parts and too fast in others making it hard to understand. A little too much detail put me to sleep as some parts. Annie gets sent back to ancient Egypt to the era of Rennifer, an Egyptian girl who finds out a secret having to do with her father and fiancee. Although I skimmed through a lot of those parts, there were some cute scenes in it, like hearing about Annie dressing in Egyptian clothes and how they thought she was "the girl of ivory". In 1899 Strat is in Egypt with a so-called "reporter" on his hands, Camilla Matthews, a girl posing to be a man posing to be a girl. It is all very complicated. I loved the way Annie met the boy in the mueseum, a descendent of Devonny (my fav. character). But I was very confused. To all those who have read the book, please tell me if this boy is the real Strat or not! He said he dreamt of being in Egypt, and his watch was filled with sand... reply on the site or email your comments to me, please at ... Thanks!! Also, I feel sooo sorry for poor Strat, the boy was so in love and had to lose Annie for the third time!! What happened to him, and to Katie? The ending was NOT fulfilling!!

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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!

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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: 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.

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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!!