Baron Finkelstein and the Chronomeister by Eric ZartanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
A Thought-Provoking Y/A Time-Travel Thriller...
Eric Zartan's Baron Finkelstein and the Chronomeister slips big questions under your skin while you're busy being entertained. Baron Ludwig von Finkelstein—a German engineer who stumbles onto this quantum contraption called the Chronomeister—can suddenly peek into tomorrow and slip through time itself.
The machine shows him nightmarish glimpses of what's coming: a tyrant who'll plunge the world into darkness. So Ludwig does what seems obvious—travels back to 1890 to kill young Adolf Hitler before he becomes a monster. Simple enough, right?
Not quite. Along the way, he meets this devilish character who picks apart every moral certainty Ludwig thought he had. Their conversations become a kind of philosophical chess match, forcing Ludwig (and us) to wrestle with questions that don't have clean answers: Can we ever really choose freely? Are we all just dominoes waiting to fall? What makes someone truly evil?
Zartan braids together quantum physics, ethics, and historical what-ifs with real skill. The heart of the story is that old "baby Hitler" puzzle we've all wondered about, but here it gets messy and complicated in all the right ways. Sure, sometimes the big ideas threaten to drown out the story, but that's almost the point—this is a book that wants to mess with your head as much as it wants to entertain you. You'll finish it questioning things you thought you knew for sure. Highly recommended.
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