Review: The best type of hero
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
The concept for this one had me fascinated from the beginning. Throw a history professor with a tragic past into a timeline with an alternate history to his own time - and watch him not only come to terms with it but try to change the world.I loved that Alex wasn't an irritating, macho hero who couldn't be bested - for Jessie decked him more than once. Yet he's a single dad who lost his wife in a tragic accident. The first thing I expected him to do was try to change the events in his past so that he could be reunited with his wife in a perfect reality, yet Ms Farrelly gave us a completely different story that I couldn't have predicted. That made this book far more real to me - because the hero wasn't a selfish bastard who only cared about his own pain. From the outset, he comes across as a real-life, thrown into circumstances that he'll make the best of, type of hero.My only complaint is that the world Alex found himself in isn't described in detail outside of the America he travels through. There's a brief mention of Britain and Europe, but that's all. I know it's not entirely necessary to the story...but I admit I'd have liked to see it.A brilliant alternate history time-travel tale, showing love spans all times and all realities, too.