Review: Silly Time Travel Gimmick, But Great Story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2013
Young man stumbles into a mine in 2000, touches a glowing wall of rock, and is instantly transported to 1941. It's a ridiculous start to a very good story, with likeable characters and an intimate feel for history.Joel Smith takes very little time to accomodate to his arrival in 1941 Montana, hopping a freight train for home (Seattle) and getting involved with several remarkable university students. (One of them is his grandmother.) The story then revolves around his status as a time traveler, with sports trivia knowledge that helps him accumulate gambling winnings, and darker knowledge of the coming world war - and he must choose whether he will share it or not.Even more compelling: when he figures out that the passage back to 2000 might reopen, he must decide whether to return, abandoning the new life he has built in 1941, his new friends, and his love.I almost didn't buy this book, but once I began reading it, I was glad I had. In fact, I immediately went online and purchased the next in the Northwest Passage series.