Review: A fun and exciting time-travel adventure romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
First, I have to say that I DON'T like time travel stories. Almost every one introduces paradoxes the slightest bit of logic will expose. Someone goes back to change the past, but if you think about it, that person should know ahead of time that he failed because anything he did in the past he ALREADY DID and it obviously didn't work. And if it did work, he wouldn't be going back to change anything. Stuff along that line. But here, we have a time travel story that does away with paradoxes. They come right out and say that the past cannot be changed.The time is about 2143. A Blast in the Past is a successful company that has small tours of the past with an experienced tour guide. The guide gets you all together, you wear a small bracelet that lets him keep track of you so you don't wander too far from the group, and you can watch an historic event for a few hours before returning back to your present. On this such tour, Reegan McNamara is taking a group of 15 people back to the year 2020 to witness an historic speech by the President. He is ushering in a peace treaty that has lasted over 100 years, and is the most beloved President in history. It's during the trip though that one woman slips away with hopes of disappearing into the past. Reegan brings his group back to his future and then returns to hire the services of private investigator Saul Kildare to help him find this woman, and it must be done quickly.You see, it's impossible to change the past. Tiny little interactions with past events by the travelers may cause little ripples, but they all iron themselves out and history continues unchanged. But the longer you stay in the past, the greater the chance that you'll do something to change history and make a paradox. Since that's impossible, what instead happens is that the chances increase that something will happen to YOU before you can change history. A car accident, hit by lightning, a heart attack, a stray bullet.... something WILL happen sooner or later. Reegan must find this woman and bring her back before something happens to her, or him. At the same time, he must do this while keeping the reason why a secret from Saul. That becomes harder and harder to do because: 1) Saul isn't stupid and knows when he's being lied to; and 2) Saul and Reegan find themselves, for the first time, falling in love with each other. And this breaks Reegan's heart because he can't stay in the past, and Saul can't return with him (people trying have almost always disappeared to never be heard from again).There's a lot of action and suspense, some humor and romance, and a whole lot of fun. I heartily recommend it.