Review: Fantastic!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2013
I can think of absolutely no reason for anyone to be able to give this novel anything other than 5 stars! From the first page the story captivated me and held my interest until the final page.This is a love story, a very human story, as well as being a sci-fi about time travel. But it was the human interest side which gripped me most.The main character Alex is totally lovable. He is very real as he grieves for his dead wife, retaining the will to live only for the sake of their young son, Jack.When Alex accidently finds a time travel device, which is very much like a mobile phone and I could quite imagine these things becoming a reality, he travels to a world which is unrecognisable from his own.Alex has travelled to an America which is run like something out of 1984 by George Orwell. Citizens live under a strict regime and fear for their lives. Here Alex meets Jessie who is one of the brave fighting for their right to freedom. Of course they fall in love and by a sheer fluke they travel back in time to the attempted assassination of a previous American president. Alex is able to thwart the attempt which was organised by the owner of the time travel device who had sought to create a utopia.Instead, when he learns of the world he created for the likes of people like Jessie, he gives up his device and Jessie and Alex are able to travel back to the present together.I don't wish this review to do an injustice to this story. It is not just a love story but so much more. There is plenty of action and danger for Alex and Jessie but the author does not try to bombard the reader with complex explanations behind the theory of time travel.You have to read this book! I will certainly be exploring more books by this very talented writer.