Stop Time & Wait For Me is the second installment of the Miriam trilogy. It takes place nine years after the first part, with Miriam now in her late teens and Douglas and friends as adults. Without giving any spoilers, Miriam stumbles upon a criminal conspiracy and loses her memory in an accident; Douglas then has to find her and find a way to restore her memories. Amnesia as a plot device is fairly common and rarely done well. I’m not saying writers can never use it, but it has to be handled with care to keep the readers’ interest. In this case, the amnesia feelstrite and lazy and is really only there to force Douglas to figure out how he really feels about Miriam. Everything else in the story was shaped around this one plot point, making it far more romance-centered than the first part.

That’s not so say i didn’t enjoy it; Stop Time had plenty of action to keep me happy, and those scenes were very well-written. The characters were just as fun, and the new characters meshed well with the already established world. (Miriam has a reputation!) If you liked the first part and want to see what happens in the future for Miriam and Douglas, or if you wish the first part put more emphasis on romance, by all means continue on to this one. But i personally didn’t like it quite as much.