Review: Exciting and Thought Provoking
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2014
This is the sequel to “The Gray Ship”, and stars that book’s main character, Jack Thurber, who is again traveling through time.  Thurber’s time traveling adventures have already earned him the title “Time Magnet” but in this episode, he has traveled into the future and discovered the time of his own and his wife’s death.  In order to reverse the death and the disastrous circumstances in which he and his wife died, Jack has to go back in time. He enlists the help of a group of other time travelers, The Thanksgiving Gang, to help him in his quest and together they face myriad adventures and deal with the issues that arise in time travel. This is at once a tale of adventure and a thoughtful novel that examines some of the questions raised by the concept of time travel: the issues of changing history to change the future, tinkering with past events and the consequences to the present when the past is changed.  I am not generally a fan of science fiction, but I am someone who is intrigued by time travel, and this novel does a great job of exploring the possibilities involved in traveling through time as well as the negative consequences that could result.  Absorbing from the first page, I became completely engrossed in this and highly recommend it.