{"id":46343,"date":"2026-11-14T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T15:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=46343"},"modified":"2026-11-14T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T15:20:23","slug":"dome-madders-of-time-book-3-by-d-l-orton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=46343","title":{"rendered":"Dome: Madders of Time Book 3 by D. L. Orton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ingenious, suspenseful, and fiercely human.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the third instalment of Orton’s Madders of Time series, saving a loved one can mean condemning an entire world. Twelve years after Eden-17 seals, Isabel finds herself stranded near Denver’s ruined airport, where survivors blame her for the killerbots that have devastated civilization. Meanwhile, sixteen-year-old time traveller Lucas and sharp-tongued scientist Sabina Lovelace race to prevent several timelines from collapsing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isabel has good reason to fear the people who take her prisoner. Her artificial pollinators were turned into weapons, and the survivors have spent years living with the consequences. Their leader, the Keeper, sees an opportunity to use her as bait, sending her into killerbot territory to lure an Eden-2 convoy into a trap. The situation is horrifying, but Orton makes it more interesting by refusing to let Isabel escape responsibility altogether. She intended to help the world, yet her work has contributed to its destruction. Elsewhere, Lucas is trying to keep history from unravelling. His uneasy partnership with Sabina, a scientist who has little patience for instructions she considers foolish, provides some of the book’s best exchanges. Sabina’s stubbornness repeatedly complicates Lucas’s plans, but it also forces him to question whether following a carefully calculated course is always the right decision. Their conversations bring welcome humour to a story in which nearly every choice carries frightening consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orton has built a remarkably detailed system of time travel, complete with physical limitations, dangerous jumps, and objects that connect otherwise separate realities. An orange seashell or an old sock can become as consequential as a sophisticated machine. These details give the science-fiction premise an appealing internal logic. The ruined airport and fortified biodomes are convincing settings, particularly in their depiction of communities shaped by fear and unequal access to safety. More affecting, however, are the smaller moments: Lucas missing his family, Isabel recognising the humanity of someone threatening her, and Sabina refusing to treat another person’s death as an acceptable calculation. The novel’s intricate timelines and technical details occasionally call for a little extra attention, but its central conflict remains absorbing. Orton understands that the hardest part of changing history may not be making the impossible happen, but living with what happens afterward. Readers who enjoyed Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter<\/em> and Claire North’s The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August<\/em> will find much to admire in Orton’s treatment of time, identity, and human choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An imaginative and compelling continuation of a series with considerable heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

***<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date October 13, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rocky Mountain Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 978-1941368510<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $20.99 Hardcover, $14.99 Paperback, $0.99 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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