The Price of Time

When an investor and a group of scientists discover a way to stop aging, rather than marketing their creation, they decide to keep it to themselves, trying to outwit time. However, as you might expect, this comes with problems of its own. In the meantime, an ex-CIA agent stumbles upon the murder of his college friend, and takes on an investigation of his own in order to figure out why his friend was murdered.

I wasn't sure what to expect after reading mixed reviews on this book. But the plot sounded intriguing. And overall, I liked it. It's a quick read with short chapters -- basically a thriller. And as thrillers go, it had its share of some some unrealistic plot twists, but I've come to expect that. The ending was wrapped up a little show more too tidily, in my opinion, but overall it was a decent read from an author I was previously unfamiliar with. show less

Great premise. Good execution. I enjoyed reading this book. I'm the kind who can never solve the mystery, but I did see this one coming. The set up was done well but 20 years into the exercise it was kinda disappointing. These people were incredibly smart and fabulously wealthy but they came up with.... this?

Instead of a gaze into the mystery of our humanity, I saw clumsy hand waving that didn't hide the fact that there was no magic happening. I think if the author spent more armchair time with the philosophical questions he posed the result might not have felt like it was a less satisfying Dan Brown knockoff.

I struggle with whether this is a 3 star or 4 star book. In the end it just didn't make the 4 star rating for me. While the book is an interesting read my emotions stayed flat throughout the book.

I think the title had me anticipating more of a science fiction read than this was. Yes there was definitely a science fiction component to the plot, but this was clearly an action/adventure book. Go in reading it as you would a Clive Cussler book and you might not be as let down as I was.

Okay - hut not great.

Sadly, predictable. That would have been ok if there had been more attention paid to the characters in the book. Any of them. But it had a rich premise, and that only highlighted the lack of character development. Very anemic.

It was an interesting premise. It would have been more interesting had the author explored a different reaction to how to spend one's time.

I didn't bother to finish the book - there was no one in the book I liked enough to care what happened to them. It was horrifying and annoying.